Personal stories from all over Europe
With hundreds of stories, documents, photos and videos published by people from all over Europe and beyond, My House of European History (MyHEH) is a unique collaborative project where history and the lives of European citizens come together.
The MyHEH Platform acts as a forum for citizens to explain what Europe means to them and how they view their part in its history. MyHEH collects citizens’ stories in 24 languages and publishes them in text, audio and video format to create a virtual library of testimonies from people across Europe and the world.
Visit the My House of European History platform (https://my-european-history.ep.eu/myhouse/myheh_project?locale=en) and browse through our latest stories!
You can listen to more podcasts on Europarl Radio (https://en.audio.europarl.europa.eu/main/pub/home), the web radio of the European Parliament (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en).
The woman who miraculously survived Auschwitz: the heartbreaking story of Jeanne Salomon
Jeanne Salomon fled the Nazis, lost her husband and child, endured Auschwitz, survived the death marches and made a new life for herself in Luxembourg. Her son Henri Juda tells the story of his mother, an extraordinary and courageous woman.
26 Mar 2024
Eurogalla: Cycling for freedom
Be inspired by the story of Dieter Rogalla riding his bike to create a Europe without borders. Let’s listen as his son Frank tells us about Dieter’s dreams of integration and unity, and cooperation and peace across borders.
27 Jan 2024
Lights in total darkness by Edith Bruck - a survivor’s story
Edith Steinschreiber Bruck was born in 1931 in Tiszabercel, a small town in Hungary close to the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. She is a writer, poet, screenwriter, director, playwright, translator, and Holocaust survivor. Let’s listen to her story.
25 Jan 2024
The Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp: Serge Klarsfeld
This is the story of Serge Klarsfeld, a French historian, writer and lawyer who was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1935. And this is how his story, and that of his family, begins: a story which is intertwined with the history of France. In summer 1940, France was split into two zones: the northern, or ‘occupied’ zone, under the control of the Nazis, and the southern, or ‘free’ zone under the control of the Vichy regime. In south-eastern France the situation changed in 1942.
24 Jan 2024
The Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp: Katarina
This is the story of Katarina and her family. This is the story of a survivor. Katarina’s father survived the Holocaust in inhuman conditions but he lost many family members in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
23 Jan 2024
The Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp: Liliana Segre
Born in Milan on 10 September 1930, Liliana Segre survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She belonged to a wealthy middle-class Italian Jewish family from Milan, for which religion had always been of secondary importance only.
23 Jan 2024
The Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp: Maria
On 9 September 1939, the Wehrmacht entered Mosina, a town near Poznań. Repression, arrests and massacres began immediately. The most tragic year was 1943, when the German occupation authorities uncovered a resistance movement in Mosina. Among those persecuted was the Jeżewicz family.
17 Jan 2024
They always called us by number, never by name: a survivor's story
This is the story of Elza. Elza Mavrič Kumar. As a young woman, Elza had to face an adolescence marked by fear. Today she is 90 years old. She told us her story which cannot fail to touch us with its clarity, respect and its strong message calling for peace in Europe. Hundreds of stories, documents, photos and videos published by people from all over Europe. This is My History, a collaborative project of the European Parliament, where History and the lives of European citizens coincide.
17 Nov 2023
The keys to freedom - memories of a cameraman from the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
In 1989, Jozef Mad’ar and his TV crew from what was then Yugoslavia were sent to film civil protests for freedom and democracy in the former Czechoslovakia. Let us listen to his recollections as he takes us on a journey through the streets of Bratislava.
5 May 2022
I felt that I was making history – my memories from the Romanian Revolution
In December 1989, Romania was experiencing violent civil unrest which culminated in the events that changed the country forever. Follow Otilia’s footsteps through the streets of Bucharest and relive the decisive moments of the Romanian revolution.
2 Mar 2022
I witnessed the birth of Europe – interview with Paul Collowald (Part 2)
This is My History and the ‘View of the Future Shaped by the Past’ series, in which we are proud to present Paul Collowald. Mr Collowald is a journalist and writer who witnessed the emergence of today’s European Union first hand.
It all started when he met one of the EU’s founding fathers, Robert Schuman. He would later go on to work in many roles at the European Commission and the European Parliament, including Director-General for Information and Head of the Private Office of Parliament President Pierre Pflimlin.
His story is divided into two parts. This is part one, in which he tells us about his early life in Europe during the war. In part two, he shares his experience of working with the EU’s founding fathers. This podcast is based on an interview by Valter Mavrič, Director-General for Translation at the European Parliament.
1 Mar 2022
I witnessed the birth of Europe – interview with Paul Collowald (Part 1)
This is My History and the ‘View of the Future Shaped by the Past’ series, in which we are proud to present Paul Collowald. Mr Collowald is a journalist and writer who witnessed the emergence of today’s European Union first hand. It all started when he met one of the EU’s founding fathers, Robert Schuman. He would later go on to work in many roles at the European Commission and the European Parliament, including Director-General for Information and Head of the Private Office of Parliament President Pierre Pflimlin.
His story is divided into two parts. This is part one, in which he tells us about his early life in Europe during the war. In part two, he shares his experience of working with the EU’s founding fathers. This podcast is based on an interview by Valter Mavrič, Director-General for Translation at the European Parliament.
Listen to this podcast in the other 23 EU languages: https://my-european-history.ep.eu/myhouse/story/1567/en
1 Mar 2022
‘Living at the crossroads of East and West’ – a story of the desire for freedom under communist oppression
Magdalena’s story is one of great changes in Europe, the peaceful end of communism and the transition from captivity to freedom. It is a call for freedom and democracy; a rallying cry for strong women in European society.
27 Feb 2022
‘Our school demos for Europe were a forerunner of Fridays for Future!’ – the Charlemagne Prize and me
Georg talks about his life: surviving the British bombardment of Aachen in the Second World War and supporting the cause of European integration, something he is doing today on the Board of Directors of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen.
27 Feb 2022
Love, war and family: keeping my grandparents’ story alive
The story told by Renata Błażowska is a true story about love, family and sacrifice, set in Poland in times of a foreign rule, two world wars and communism.
Original language: Polish
26 Feb 2022
‘We are all stars under the same sky’: how the fall of the Berlin Wall shaped a young man’s vision of Europe
It was 1989. Andrea was seven years old and lived in Forte dei Marmi on Italy’s Tyrrhenian coast. He was beginning to discover the world. Together with his family, they travelled around Italy and Europe – from East to West and from North to South – and saw the reality of borders. And then, one day in November 1989, the way they looked at Europe changed completely. As day turned to night, Europe reached a turning point.
We kindly thank Rai Direzione Teche for granting the use of their audio material.
25 Feb 2022
“What does it mean to be Dutch?” - A quest through history for one’s own identity
“What does it mean to be Dutch?” - A quest through history for one’s own identity
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