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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
Eva and Magda: Surviving “The Selection”
Just over seventy years ago, Soviet soldiers liberated 7,000 people from the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Two of them were Eva Fahidi and Magda Brown, who were just teenagers when they were placed before Dr. Josef Mengele and waved to the right–to live. They joined us to reflect on that brief, defining moment with the man dubbed “the angel of death.”
Israel’s Holocaust Obsession?
The six million victims of the Holocaust summon us, command us, to ‘never forget.’ But perhaps honoring that memory can go too far. Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Parliament, nearly threw away his political career six years ago when he published a book arguing that Israel’s emphasis on the Holocaust has become obsessive, feeding an unhealthy nationalism crippled with paranoia.
Israeli author Daniel Gordis says, yes, Israel’s Holocaust memories carry a serious price. But he says the rest of the world is not committed to remembering, so if not Israel and the Jewish people, than who?
