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Fierce Girls

Mirka Mora – the girl who painted the town red

Fierce Girls

ABC listen

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 β€’ 930 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As a child, Mirka Mora narrowly escaped being sent to a death camp just for being Jewish. The faces of the people she left behind would haunt her forever.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a B.C. podcast.

0:05.0

Ninemani, Nainai, Tiana, Nagana anda

0:09.4

gungabina. Hello, are you good? My name is Tiana. My Ghana name is Gangabina, which means the caring one.

0:17.2

To begin, it's important that we acknowledge the country that we are on.

0:22.1

I'm on Ghanaianna Arto to the lands of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Plains.

0:26.8

We would like to pay our respects to the custodians, to the ancestors that nurtured the land and the elders that have led the way for generations.

0:37.0

This is your land, this is your country, it has always been Aboriginal land.

0:43.0

And as this is a podcast whose reach is far and wide,

0:47.0

we would like to extend our respect to the elders of the lands. This recording might reach.

0:53.2

Yes.

0:56.2

Go Power.

1:01.2

This is the story of Merkamora, the girl who painted the town red.

1:06.0

Red by actress and singer Julia Zamir. Slide away slippery snails.

1:15.0

Slovery snails.

1:19.0

It was Merka's job to catch snails in the veggie patch, but she didn't put a stone on the container

1:25.3

lid like she was supposed to. Merka wanted the snails to escape.

1:29.7

Liberty Escangoble. Be free.

1:34.0

When the snails disappeared, leaving shiny trails behind, Merka felt proud.

1:40.0

After all, Merka Madeline Mora was from a family of escapies.

1:45.0

Her mum escaped from Romania after her walnut and potato shop was ransacked,

1:52.0

and her dad escaped from the walnut and potato shop was ransacked.

1:53.9

And her dad escaped from Lithuania, running through the forest, surviving on snake and monkey

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