Past Programs
Unrest, Conflict and War - 2008
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Rosa Robota Gate Read Transcript
12/10/2008
Rosa Robota, a polish Jewish inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during WWII, organised the only attempt to blow up the Crematorium used to burn bodies at Auschwitz on 7 October 1944. Holocaust survivor, Sam Spitzer, has commemorated this forgotten heroine in the Rosa Robota Gate at Montefiore Home in Sydney.
Pope Pius XII - Was He the Nazi Pope or Not? Read Transcript
21/09/2008
The papacy of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi takeover of Europe has long been criticised by historians for its ineffective response to Hitler and its silence during the persecution of European Jews. Historian Paul O'Shea reconsiders the record of Pius XII in light of the Church's long history of anti-Judaism and Eugenio Pacelli's life before he became the Pope.
A Diggers' Cross From France Read Transcript
20/04/2008
A Dawn Service this Anzac Day at Villers-Bretonneux in France will be the first one of its kind on the Western Front since the end of World War I. Accompanying it will be the historic cross brought from St George's Anglican Cathedral in Perth that was made in 1918 to mark the site where the Western Australian 51st Battalion fought the Germans and turned the tide of the war.
