Ep. #39 England with Helen Turner: Never Forget
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Ron Klutho talks to Helen Turner from England!
MUSIC: Weather With You by Crowded House
Next week Ron will talk about Australia with Frances Sommerhof.
Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL
Find out more about Ron at https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/
0:00 SEG 1 Born in Reading and lived in Bradfield | Childhood at a Victorian school | Coming to America for her dad’s job | Getting lost in New York because all the homes looked alike | Al Capone represented America | Not being able to tell the islands apart | Struggling at school because of her accent and making her own school uniform | Going back to England in her 20’s | Asking her teacher for an eraser | Completing school in New York
16:53 SEG 2 Slipping back into her accent | Working at a holocaust museum on Long Island | Learning about the holocaust at 7 years old | Meeting holocaust survivors | Giving virtual tours of the museum in Long Island during the pandemic | Being the director of education at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum | The museum got to be too popular for its space and went under a reimagination | The impact lab | What does anti-semitism look like today? | Empowering people to report anti-Semitism | St. Louis holocaust survivors
33:29 SEG 3 What is a typical day at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum for the director of education? | Some students drive 3 and 4 hours to visit the museum | How long does an average person spend at the museum? | Reusing items from the old museum | How many holocaust museums are there in the country? | Traveling around Europe for holocaust research | Visiting Krakow | Bringing films to the museum | U.K. vs Great Britain | Voting in Brexit | The Royal Family | the best and worst thing about America | America relies too much on cars | The education is incredible
Find out more about the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum https://stlholocaustmuseum.org/
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