In this episode you will hear:
- Part 2 of our interview with a Canadian Polish photographer/author who had unprecedented access to women’s prisons in Afghanistan
- More about famous Poles, but this time not ones that we can be proud of.
- About a unique underground organization helping the Jews in German occupied Poland during WW2.
Interviews:
• Gabriela Maj, a Canadian Polish photographer in Dubai, talks about 5-year work on her critically acclaimed “Almond Garden” showing women’s prisons in Afghanistan
• “Żegota” – Council for Aid to Jews, the only such organization in German occupied Europe – a panel discussion at the University of Toronto
Also in this episode:
• Non-Poles about Poles – how it is to live with a Pole
• Notorious Poles
• Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of “The Pianist”, created the Sopot Festival, where international singers had to perform a Polish song each
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