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Laya's Way Home - part 2

Laya's Way Home - part 2

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

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Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from
Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf was
sent to slave labour for not denouncing her. Both survived.
Now, Wennigsen has invited their Australian family back, to
commemorate Laya and Adolf’s incredible story of courage and
love. In Part 1, their great-grandchildren discovered a
town perhaps finally ready to accept the extent of its role in
the Nazi regime. In Part 2, they will experience that history
face-to-face.

They experience that history face-to-face -- when they visit the
slave labour camp, only recently unearthed, where Adolf was held.
And where they must reckon with horrors that will shock
even the German historians guiding them.

Michaela Kalowski, Joanna's husband John Hempton, Joanna Kalowski
and Rick Kalowski

Guests:

Joanna Kalowski - internationally recognised mediator and
granddaughter of Laya and Adolf Semler

Michael Wittich - historian for the town of Wennigsen

Christina Muller - city councillor in Wennigsen

Jutta Henza - historian of the Stolen Gustav slave
labour camp

Credits:

Writers: Rick Kalowski and Michaela Kalowski

Presenters: Michaela Kalowski and Rick Kalowski

Producer: Claudia Taranto

Sound Engineer: Hamish Camilleri

Research assistance : Tadhg Kalowski