Category: World War II
Holocaust Survivor Judy Straus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/06Jul15-Judy-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This week we visit with Judy Straus, a survivor of the Holocaust Her story is one of tragedy and hope…and…
The 70th Anniversary of Victory in Europe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/12May15-Melvin-Alper-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Melvin Alper fought an entire year in Europe during WW II, but it was the last two months of the…
Trained to Face the Enemy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/11May15-Melvin-Alper-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Melvin Alper had trained to face the enemy, but nothing could have prepared him for the scene he would face…
A Jewish Family’s Challenges in Nazi Germany
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Jan15-Henry-Straus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)We resume our moving conversation today with Henry Straus as he share his family’s challenges living as Jews in a…
Growing Up Jewish in Germany
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/29Jan15-Henry-Straus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)From his earliest memories, Henry Straus remembers discrimination. As a young Jewish boy living in a German city, his family…
The 70th Anniversary of a Special Nativity Scene
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Dec14-Algona-POW-Nativity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This year in Algona, IA, residents will celebrate the 70th anniversary of a very special Nativity scene. It was a…
A Nativity Scene On Display Year-Round
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/22Dec14-Algona-POW-Nativity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)During the advent season, many families and churches will set up Nativity scenes. They figures remind us of the birth…
Escaping a POW Camp in the Midwest
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If a soldier is taken as a prisoner of war, they may try to escape to freedom. That was the…
Enemy Soldiers Working the Fields of Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine the pain of losing a son or daughter who was fighting in a war. Now imagine hiring one of…
A Shortage of Labor at Home During World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When young men went to fight in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, many communities were left with…
Experiencing World War II In a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)During World War II, some U.S. communities experienced the conflict in a unique way. They became the homes for foreign…
Martial Law Following Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/11Dec14-Pearl-Harbor-Jimmy-Lee-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)When we think of Pearl Harbor during World War II, we often focus on just the events of December 1941. …
Witness To Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/11/10Dec14-Pearl-Harbor-Jimmy-Lee-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor cost the lives of over 2000 American servicemen and women. Over half of…
A POW-built Nativity
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/12/16Dec13-Algona-Iowa-Nativity.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….
The Balloon Bombs from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…
From Pearl Harbor into World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Sep13-Al-Bodenlos.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Al Bodenlos can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on…
Surviving the Romanians and the Nazis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/09Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris, her mother and younger sister had survived life in a forced labor camp at the hands of…
The Holocaust From the Eyes of a Child
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/08Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Newman Gris was but six years old, but the decision she was about to make could impact her life…
The Difficult Stories of Surviving the Holocaust
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/07Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Paula Neuman Gris was but three years old when her family began to be torn apart by the Holocaust. Although…
A Holocaust Survivor’s Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/06Aug13-Paula-Neuman-Gris-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Over the next few days you’ll be hearing from Paula Neuman Gris, a girl of only four years of age…
