Gitu Cycowicz on Meeting President Biden (new); Diego Rotman: Dzigan & Schumacher (replay)

Part 1: We took a temporary break from our summer rerun season to
bring our dear listeners breaking news, of a sort, from the real
world: we reached friend of the show Gitu
Cycowics hours after her meeting with President Biden at
Yad Vashem to get her first impressions. Gitu -- a/k/a Giselle
(Gita) Cycowicz (née Friedman) -- who was born in 1927 in the
town of Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, then part of
Czechoslovakia, survived Auschwitz and other camps, later
starting a new life in the USA, and eventually getting her PhD in
psychology. In her later years, she moved to Israel and then
worked for decades for AMCHA (https://amcha.org), helping with
the psychological needs of her fellow survivors. Today (Weds.,
Jul. 13, 2022) she was one of two Holocaust survivors invited to
meet President Joseph Biden at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. We are
thankful for sharing with us her first impressions of that
experience hours after it took place. Here is a YouTube from the
live stream of Gitu meeting Biden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96DZT4qMXs&t=731s Here is
Gitu's page at Yad Vashem:
https://www.yadvashem.org/blog/i-have-to-tell-my-story-giselle-cycowicz.html


Part 2: We continue our summer rerun season with an interview of
Diego Rotman, interviewed by Sholem
Beinfeld, discussing the famed Yiddish actors and comics
Shimon Dzigan and Yisroel Schumacher. The interview was
originally aired in March, 2022.


Air date: July 13, 2022


PS: you can still find the original podcast containing the Diego
Rotman interview aired on Mar. 2, 2022, in our archive:


https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/diego-rotman-dzigan-schumacher