Episode 156: Yaffa Eliach

About this episode

The episode features Yaffa Eliach, a Holocaust survivor who became a scholar and historian, emphasizing the importance of remembering individual stories behind historical statistics.

This week's amazing woman was just a child when Nazi forces invaded the region where she lived and almost overnight her world disappeared. Against all odds, she survived the devastation, made her way to the United States, and became a scholar, historian, and teacher. She realized that behind every statistic there were names, faces and lives. We learn the number 6 million... but we lost so much more than that. To excavate the stories of those lost is to push against exactly what the Holocaust tried to do - erase lives. Support the podcast on our Buy Me A Coffee Page. 4

People in this episode

Host: Paige

Guest: Yaffa Eliach

Topics covered

• survival
• history
• Holocaust
• scholarship
• personal stories

Keywords

• Yaffa Eliach
• Holocaust
• survivor
• history
• scholar
• personal stories
• education

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