Olga, Erika, and me

About Olga, Erika, and me

Ilanit-Michele had been born and raised in the Jewish faith. But like her own mother Erika, she felt her faith had been force fed to her by her grandmother, Olga. As a young adult, Ilanit-Michele chose to minimise the Jewish aspects of her identity, and find her own path. Then Olga’s memoir resurfaced in a box after her death, its first page specifically dedicated to her daughter and granddaughter. It told a tale of growing up in 1930s Hungary, surviving years in Auschwitz and other camps, and discovering at the war’s end that her family had been almost completely obliterated. Olga had never revealed the full story to anyone during her lifetime, and the manuscript had lain in its box for over twenty years. Moved by the discovery, Ilanit-Michele and her mother began absorbing the story. They had it translated from Hungarian, went to visit the locations it mentioned and recorded the impact it had on their own views of family, history, faith and identity. Through travel, dialogue, interviews and reading out excerpts of Olga’s story, the lives of these three generations of women were rebraided, the tapestry of the family repaired and its Jewish heritage reconsidered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Ilanit Michele Woods

Category

history · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jan 2025

Latest episode

9 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 1: What a Dirty Lie

   "My life has not been a straightforward line; it has been more like a rough road full of bumps." 1930s - 1944 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 2: The Glass Heeled Shoes

   "He lifted the wire without a word. I crawled through, quickly picked some flowers and crawled back in." June 1944 - September 1944 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 3: Dominoes

   "I was standing in front of a huge machine covered in oil with various instruments on it." September 1944 - April 1945 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 4: Liberation

   "A white sheet was waving in the wind on the building opposite us." April 1945 - July 1945 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 5: Home

   "I had been sitting deep in thought for a while when I lifted my head and I noticed next to me an old man wearing glasses and holding a stick." July 1945 - November 1945 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   9 Jan 2025

   Part 6: Que Sera Sera

   "I would love to be a bird and fly there and peak in through the window!" 1945 - present day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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