Photo: Mishy Harman
Israel Story

Of Numbers and Names

For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended

May 4, 2016
Photo: Mishy Harman

On Thursday, Israelis observe Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10 a.m., according to custom, an air raid will sound and the country will fall quiet for two long minutes.

Silence won’t do for a podcast, so instead Israel Story brings you two stories. Act I, “B-1367,” is about an elderly father and his 53-year-old son, and the inked number that binds them together. In Act II, “Herr Eichmann,” we meet up with a group of men for whom Eichmann is not a symbol of Nazi evil, but a gaunt, balding prisoner for whom they were responsible, as guards and interrogators.

Israel Story, the English-language version of the popular Israeli radio program Sipur Israeli, is distributed by PRX and produced in partnership with Tablet.

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