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Eunice Wong reads an article about Lola Mozes' traumatic childhood experiences during World War II.

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published November 10, 2025. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Full Text: BROOKLYN, N.Y — Lola Mozes’ childhood came to an end in the fall of 1939 at a small bridge in Poland. She was 9 — seated in a horse-drawn wagon, her back propped against her family’s silver Sabbath candelabra, which was wrapped in a blanket — when she saw the aftermath of a German bomb attack. The sight of human bodies, along with eviscerated horses gasping in pain and struggling to rise despite their gaping wounds, reduced her to tears and panic. Her mother, Helena Rewitz, born Schwimer, who would hover over her daughter like a guardian angel later in a Jewish ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, took the terrified child into her arms. I sat with Lola Mozes at her dining room table in Brooklyn on Friday. Short and petite, with…

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Host: Chris Hedges

Guest: Eunice Wong

Topics covered

• childhood trauma
• World War II
• Jewish history
• personal narrative
• family bonds

Keywords

• Eunice Wong
• Lola Mozes
• World War II
• Jewish ghetto
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• childhood trauma
• personal narrative

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Places: Poland, Brooklyn

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