25 Best Holocaust Podcasts

1. 12 Years That Shook the World

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From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 12 Years That Shook the World explores stories of real people, the choices they made, and specific moments in Holocaust history from 1933-1945. Our next season is scheduled to be released in 2024.Please be advised: This podcast contains stories that listeners may find disturbing. Listen with caution.MORE Producer/Network United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
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2. On Auschwitz

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The official podcast of the Auschwitz Memorial. The history of Auschwitz is exceptionally complex. It combined two functions: a concentration camp and an extermination center. Nazi Germany persecuted various groups of people there, and the camp complex continually expanded and transformed itself. In the podcast 'On Auschwitz,' we discuss the details of the history of the camp as well as our contemporary memory of this important and special place.We kindly ask you to support our mission and share our podcast in social media.Online lessons: http://lesson.auschwitz.orgMORE Host Pawel Sawicki
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Dr. Adam Cyra, dr. Agnieszka Kita +4 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 368 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. The Holocaust History Podcast

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The Holocaust History Podcast features engaging conversations with a diverse group of guests on all elements of the Holocaust.  Whether you are new to the topic or come with prior knowledge, you will learn something new.MORE Host Waitman Wade Beorn
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Anna Hájková, David Livingstone Smith +1 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 147 Avg Length 90 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. For the Living and the Dead. Traces of the Holocaust

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In each episode of For the Living and the Dead, a Holocaust researcher talks about an object, now often in a museum, that tells a very personal story about the Holocaust. The first season of the EHRI Podcast has six episodes and features a teddy bear, mica-flakes, a postcard, gramophone discs, a magazine cover and the typewriter. The unique stories come from all over Europe the Holocaust being a continent-wide phenomenon ranging from Belgium to Ukraine, from Romania to Italy.This podcast season of six episodes is released every other week, starting 29 September 2022...MORE Producer/Network EHRI
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War

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This podcast features interviews with authors of new research, fresh monographs and recent books about the Holocaust and World War II.
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6. Lights Up on the Dark: The Holocaust Onstage

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Blending performing arts and history, LUOTD delves into what it means to represent the Holocaust onstage. Co-hosting from London and New York, theatre historian Samantha Mitschke and actor Alexandra Gellner discuss all things Holocaust-theatre. Bringing their perspectives as Holocaust educators, the pair look at how theatre can help with teaching and learning about the Holocaust as they offer fresh and thought-provoking insights.MORE Avg Length 67 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. The Ackerman Center Podcast

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The Ackerman Center Podcast provides a space for thoughtful and in-depth conversation about the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights studies. Launched in 2020, this podcast works to extend the conversation beyond academic audiences—providing an educational, engaging, and transformative experience. Through confronting the past, we work to promote solutions for global justice and peace in our world. Listen to all of the seasons of the Ackerman Center Podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and RadioPublic.MORE Producer/Network Ackerman Center
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Chosen For What?

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What does it mean to grow up in the shadow of survival?Chosen For What? is a powerful new podcast that dives deep into the personal stories of second and third generation Holocaust survivors. Hosted by acclaimed broadcaster and author Tommy Schnurmacher (whose own mother survived the horrors of Auschwitz), this original series features raw, unfiltered conversations with the children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren of those who endured and survived the Holocaust.This insightful podcast bridges personal histories and the present with heart, depth and some classic Jewish humour...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

9. Holocaust Education Program Podcast

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Welcome to the official podcast of the English Montreal School Board Holocaust Education Program, supported by a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal. Over the course of this academic year we will be interviewing survivors and talking to other students and staff about what they have learned from this new EMSB program, made possible thanks to a Jewish Community Foundation grant. It will include many guest speakers, activities and visits to the Montreal Holocaust Museum.MORE Hosts Mark Bergman, Eliane Goldstein
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Facebook 31.4KTwitter 9.6KInstagram 9.4K Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

10. A Small Light

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A Small Light is a narrative history podcast about moral courage during the Holocaust. Hosted by Shifra Corrigan, the series tells the stories of ordinary people who chose empathy over safety and action over indifference. By examining the lives of the Righteous Among the Nations and the Jewish resistance they supported, each episode asks a timeless question: what does it mean to do the right thing?MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 84 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. The Upstander Ripple Effect

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The Upstander Ripple Effect is a podcast featuring stories of how one act of standing up for justice can have an infinite impact. It's where stories of courage and resilience during the Holocaust—one of the darkest chapters in human history— come alive to inspire a new generation of upstanders today...MORE Producer/Network The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Their Stories Unbroken

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Their Stories Unbroken is a podcast that explores how The Holocaust has impacted the lives of Jewish Australians. Through long-form conversation with 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation survivors, we will not only bear witness to the experiences of those that lived through The Shoah - The Hebrew word for the Holocaust meaning catastrophe - but look to gain an insight into what it is like growing up as a descendant of survivors in the shadow of the holocaust.MORE Host Matthew Sortino
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Recent Guest John Reed
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13. Our Freedom: Then and Now

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Our Freedom Then and Now is a JW3 podcast marking eighty years since Liberation, exploring what freedom means today for a generation living in the long shadow of the Holocaust. Across intimate conversations, participants reflect on fear, survival, identity, and moral courage, discovering how the past shapes their sense of freedom in the present.MORE Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

14. 3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G

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3GDC brings to you a podcast series hosted by Mark Joseph Stern of the DC area, a grandson of a Holocaust survivor. The show highlights conversations with other grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, known as '3Gs,' or 'third generation' survivors in the DC area. Each episode features a unique family story told by a 3G as 'Thirty Minutes with a 3G.'MORE Producer/Network Mark Joseph Stern
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Holocaust Video Project with Dr. Kenneth Hanson

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Holocaust Video Project with Dr. Kenneth Hanson discusses the history of the holocaust in a series of video lectures.
Producer/Network Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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16. We Share The Same Sky

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We Share The Same Sky is an intimate portrait of family history that tells the stories of two young women—Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, her granddaughter, on a search to retrace her grandmother's history. Presented by USC Shoah Foundation, this seven-part narrative series explores how the retelling of family stories becomes history itself and how acts of kindness during war can echo across generations.MORE Producer/Network Rachael Cerrotti
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.4K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust

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Survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust are the subjects of 'Those Who Were There,' a new podcast from Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. The podcast is narrated by Eleanor Reissa, actress and Yiddish theater director, and historical oversight by Professor Samuel Kassow. 'Those Who Were There' podcast features audio from videotaped interviews conducted between 1979 up to the present. 'Back in 1979, video was regarded as a remarkable, groundbreaking technology for documenting the experiences of survivors...MORE Host Eric Marcus
Producer/Network Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 215Facebook 18KTwitter 915Instagram 1.1K Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

18. Covering Their Tracks

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The extraordinary story of a young man's escape from a moving train bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and his fight to hold the French national rail company, the SNCF, accountable for their actions as they later bid for lucrative high-speed rail contracts in the United States.MORE Producer/Network Tablet Studios
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 121 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. Holocaust (Audio)

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Scholars and witnesses present evidence documenting the mass atrocities that took place from 1933 through to the end of World War II in 1945, giving voice to the memories of the 6 million Jews and 5 million other victims who were murdered throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories under the command of Adolf Hitler.MORE Host Harry Kreisler
Producer/Network UCTV
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 71Facebook 29.2KTwitter 5.8K Avg Length 62 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

20. On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem

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Producer/Network Yad Vashem
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 57Facebook 260.3KTwitter 97.9KInstagram 127.6K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

21. Objects of the Holocaust

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Objects of the Holocaust explores personal testimonies across generations through single objects, uncovering lesser-known histories of the Holocaust and telling incredible stories of family, loss, and survival. Hosted by Professor Tim Cole from the University of Bristol and actress and member of the second generation Louisa Clein, the series features a new guest each week who joins to offer a deeply human perspective on one of history's darkest chapters...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Nick Robinson
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22. Me & Bernard

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Join host Jonathan Ornstein, CEO of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, in an exclusive podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with his friend Bernard Offen, 96, a Holocaust Survivor from Krakow, Poland who survived five concentration camps. In this series, Bernard shares his powerful life story, detailing his experiences growing up Jewish in pre-war Poland and his fascinating life after the war...MORE Producer/Network Jonathan Ornstein
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

23. If You Heard What I Heard

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If You Heard What I Heard is a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting the stories of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, the last generation to hear survivor stories firsthand. We create modern Holocaust media that humanizes the history of the Holocaust, drives empathy, and inspires action to stand up to antisemitism in all forms. Listen to the powerful stories, and what their survival and resilience means for all of us today. Join us in honoring these survivors and taking action to fight antisemitism in all forms...MORE Producer/Network If You Heard What I Heard
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

24. Wannsee. Looking at the International Dimension of the Holocaust.

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How did the Holocaust unfold in different European countries? What role did local anti-Semitism play? And how did Jews defend themselves? These and other questions are explored in our new podcast.MORE Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

25. histoPOD: Commemorating the Holocaust

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This podcast series wants to shed light on the cultures of Holocaust remembrance in different countries.
Producer/Network bpb
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