An unsung hero
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week, the Hollywood-worthy story of Janina Garbień. Her family hid a nine-year-old Jewish girl in their Warsaw home during the war; Janina would later fall in love with an Italian prisoner at a Nazi camp, lose him, and find him again. Ola Cichowlas tells us her grandmother's extraordinary tale. We also talk about a shocking case of police brutality and the controversy over France's security law. Plus, unfortunate village names and the truth about apples.
Ola is Moscow correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP). You can follow her here and read a beautiful thread about her grandmother here.
Katy guest-hosted the first episode of the new UN Women podcast Generations Talk Gender, featuring a conversation between a young Romanian feminist and a long-time activist in Serbia. Check it out here.
Thanks for listening! If you enjoy this podcast and would like to help us keep making it, you can chip in a few euros/dollars/pounds at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Swedish comedy 'Love and Anarchy', Dutch TV show 'Een programma over de jaren negentig', and this accompanying 90s Eurodance playlist.
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| 0:00.0 | I've discovered something a bit crazy during this pandemic. |
| 0:24.4 | What? |
| 0:25.2 | So like a lot of people, I've been spending quite a lot of time on Zoom calls. |
| 0:28.8 | And we realized recently that if someone flushes the toilet in this household, the Wi-Fi cuts out and I fall off the call. |
| 0:36.3 | Isn't that crazy? |
| 0:37.1 | That's really strange and doesn't really make any sense. Why should flashing a toilet |
| 0:41.3 | be connected to electricity or Wi-Fi signal? I don't know. But if anyone has any insights |
| 0:46.2 | into why that may be the case, let me know. It's very intriguing. |
| 0:49.8 | Sounds like it might tie into some conspiracy theory, I reckon. It's real. |
| 0:55.5 | How are you? |
| 0:56.5 | I'm fine. |
| 0:59.6 | I actually had quite like an event for a few days. |
| 1:01.7 | I had to help a friend move house. |
| 1:05.2 | So it felt like the most social contact I've had in decades. |
| 1:09.7 | And you know, in Amsterdam, we move house through the window with these like pullies and ropes. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:10.8 | If you've not seen it, you should Google it. |
| 1:12.3 | It's like quite extraordinary and quite terrifying because I, they decided to put the British |
| 1:16.6 | person in charge of making sure the huge pieces of furniture don't smash against the windows |
| 1:22.4 | of the flats below. |
| 1:25.2 | And oh my God, there was a really near miss with an enormous two metre long sofa |
| 1:30.1 | almost crashing into the window of the flat below. But I just about survived it. Well done. |
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