Ruta's Closet From Keith Morgan Unpredictable Compassionate Reality In Repeat Mode And More
About this episode
The episode discusses Keith Morgan's book 'Ruta's Closet', which tells the story of a Jewish family's experiences during the Holocaust in Lithuania.
Ruta's Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania, during World War II, written by journalist Keith Morgan. We are familiar with many of the great Jewish communities of the pre-war years and of their fate when they were turned into ghettos and became the scenes of mass murder and deportation. One such place that is less familiar is the Lithuanian town of Siauliai, known in Yiddish as Shavl. The few survivors of that once vibrant Jewish community have often expressed to me their sadness that it does not figure as prominently as it ought in most accounts of the Holocaust. This book redresses that balance.“The origins of Ruta's Closet trace back to 1997 when I wrote a newspaper column in Vancouver's Province about Holocaust survivor Ruth Kron Sigal, now deceased,” says Morgan. “In my long newspaper career, I’d covered many chilling true-life crimes but her story was the most remarkable I had heard.”It is the true story of how Ruth's family sought to escape the deadly clutches of Hitler's Final Solution in Lithuania. Her parents’ determination to survive grew stronger as members of their Jewish family and good…
More episodes of Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut
- Arroe Unplugged Page Two Thousand Eighty Stream Thinking
- Pod Crashing Episode 484 The Podcast If You Can Hear Me From Ben Higgins
- Get A Financial Life Personal Finance In Your 20s And 30 From Bet Kobliner
- How The Democrats Screwed Bernie From Political Strategist Tad Devine
- The Daily Mess Why Is It Called America Plus Whatever Happened To Climate Control
- C.T.C.S Episode 231 Martial Artists Breaking Rules New M&M's Plus Parents Fighting Alcohol Laws
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut podcast page.