Gitta Ryle: Holocaust Survivor

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Feb 23, 2024 | All Talk, Local, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Santa Cruz History, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Gitta Ryle: Holocaust Survivor

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Gitta Ryle was 7 when her mother sent her and her 10-year-old sister Renee from their home in Vienna, Austria to France to be hidden from the Nazis. What followed was seven years of separation and fear, always hiding and hoping not to be caught and killed. Her father was killed in Auschwitz. Gitta tells her story and reflects on what it means in our current time and how therapy helped her want to live and shed the anger that was weighing her down. She is approaching her 92nd birthday and finds purpose in telling about what happened so that no one can deny history and hopefully, we will learn from the past not to repeat the tragedies of fear and fascism.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.