Filmmaker
John Pollick is a lawyer in Illinois. He has written extensively about his maternal grandparents, Jewish immigrants from what is now Ukraine, and his father, an American GI wounded in France. In 2019 he traveled to Ukraine to make a film about the "Forgotten Holocaust", the estimated 2.4 million neglected and unburied shooting victims in Eastern Europe, including his grandparents' families.
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Oct. 20, 2024
Beyond Babi Yar with John Pollick
This podcast was recorded during the part of the year in which the holiest of Jewish holidays takes place. It seemed appropriate to take some time to remember those of us who were lost during the Holocaust, but a part of the Holocaust many of us know little about, This podcast contains a film by John Pollick: (From the film's web page - https://www,beyondbabiyarmovie.com) "Babi Yar, or Babyn Yar, is a ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine. On September 29th and 30th, 1941, Nazis forced 33,771 Jews into it a...