Faculty Emerita Eva Kollisch Profiled in “Exile” Podcast Narrated by Mandy Patinkin
Exile, a podcast about Jewish lives under the shadow of fascism, is narrated by award-winning screen and stage actor Mandy Patinkin and features untold stories and firsthand accounts drawn from intimate letters, diaries, and interviews found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s vast archive. Kollisch, who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925, escaped Nazi-led Austria with her siblings via the Kindertransport in 1939. They settled with their parents in New York City in 1940.
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