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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

The Last Ships From Hamburg

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Martha revisits her conversation with author and historian Steven Ujifusa, who shares his family's fascinating history. Born to a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father, he dug into his history and uncovered stories that he now feels compelled to share. Steven also introduces his book 'The Last Ships From Hamburg', which covers the story of over two million Jews who fled their homes in Eastern Europe to escape discrimination and persecution between 1890 and 1921. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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exclusions apply. 18 plus scumannwellware.org. Welcome to The Untold Story Podcast for this week.

0:44.3

I'm Martha McCallum.

0:45.2

It's great to have you with us.

0:46.6

And today I am joined by the author of The Last Ships from Hamburg,

0:51.8

business, rivalry, and the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World

0:57.5

War I. It is an absolutely fascinating period to look at, and it is written by the historian

1:04.1

and author Stephen Yujifusa. Did I say her name right?

1:08.2

You did, yes. Thank you so much, Martha.

1:09.8

It's great to have you with us. It's an interesting name, and I've heard you talk about it.

1:13.6

I always like to, on the untold story, start by having our guests talk a little bit about themselves. For people who don't know you, tell us a little bit about your background, Stephen. Well, sure. I have a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father, both sort of a byproduct of two

1:29.7

immigrant stories. And I grew up outside of New York City. I've always been fascinated

1:35.0

with ships in the sea. And in many ways this story was a coming home for me. It was a research

1:40.2

into my own mother's family's roots. and also my grandmother, who was the daughter

1:45.0

of Jewish immigrants from Russia, she told me the story of the Titanic when I was around six

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