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For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.

As the sun rose over the rolling hills of Pennsylvania on July 1, 1863, the sleepy town of Gettysburg awoke to the sound of gunfire. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under the command of General Robert E. Lee, had marched north into enemy territory, seeking to deliver a decisive blow to the Union forces and bring an end to the Civil War. But the Union Army of the Potomac, led by General George G. Meade, stood in their way, determined to defend their homeland and preserve the Union at all costs. The first day of the battle was a chaotic affair, as Union cavalry under the command of ...

This podcast will explore lesser-known histories, holidays, objects, and anything else that has been lost to household knowledge.

Linda Pack reads episodes of her immensely popular public radio program Mendocino County Remembered. She edits and interprets selections from the oral histories collected and published under the auspices of the Mendocino Historical Society for the American Bicentennial in 1976. A new episode every Sunday.