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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Memoirist Patricia Bischof pieced together parents’ Holocaust past
Description: Patricia C. Bischof, as an adult, sat in a room in her mother’s house, crying, as she listened to the story of her mother’s life — a story she had never heard before.Her mother, Ruth, was being filmed in the next room in an interview, which Bischof had set up, for the Shoah Foundation.Bischof has spent her life trying to piece together her parents’ past and has spent 10 years writing a book about the experience.“This interview, I now understand, was a way for her to accomplish her healing is a safe env...