When someone else has a lasting interest in your story, you start to think that it is perhaps, interesting.<\/p>\n
This Radio Feature was created by a Danish friend, Ann Elisabeth Jessen.<\/p>\n
We share the same first and middle names, we are the same age, and we live similar lives.\u00a0 I have taken to calling her Pandora.\u00a0 She made this feature, emphasizing my late-in-coming knowledge that my family was Jewish, and she found and showed me the death certificate of my great-grandfather:\u00a0 9 July, 1943.\u00a0 Ghetto Theresienstadt. Grandma had not told us this.<\/p>\n
We traveled to Bzionkow, in Silesia, in December of 2013 where Pandora and her Polish colleague, Monika Hemperek from Lublin, researched and recorded the radio drama about my return to Bzionkow.<\/p>\n
Bzionkow is a charismatic agricultural estate where my grandmother grew up and my father played as a boy until his family, all but his grandparents, fled to the USA in 1939.\u00a0 They came to New York City where my father finished high school.\u00a0\u00a0 No one spoke about being Jewish.\u00a0 I grew up around German refugees celebrating Christmas.<\/p>\n
I never thought of claiming this property.\u00a0 But I do want to see it get a new life.<\/p>\n
Original material: Radio Feature chronicling my exploration of the now For Sale family estate in Silesia leading up to imagining a sustainable future for the place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-were-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRadio Shows by Lisbeth Jessen at
\ndeutschlandradiokultur.de\/ursendung-guten-tag-auf-polnisch.958.de.html?dram:article_id=293089<\/a>
\nThe Polish version by Monika Hemperek at
\nmoje.radio.lublin.pl\/21-10-2014-reportaz-cafe-reportaz-lisbeth-jessen-i-moniki-hemperek-guten-tag-po-polsku.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"