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Eighty years ago, a small dedicated group of Quakers opened a hostel to provide shelter and a pathway to a new life for refugees who fled Nazi violence…
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River to River host Ben Kieffer speaks with Jerry Yocum, vice president of the Camp Algona POW Museum Committee
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Veterans who fly to Washington D.C. to see their service memorials on so-called Honor Flights will have to wait until next year.The National Honor Flight…
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At History Camp Iowa 2020, history buffs from all over the state will come together to share their expertise. On this edition of Talk of Iowa, host…
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The Marine Corps confirmed after 74 years this month that one of the men featured in Joe Rosenthal's flag-raising photo at the battle of Iwo Jima was…
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D-Day was arguably the most important day of the 20th century.In this edition of River to River, we remember the Allied invasion of Western Europe on June…
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This program originally aired on November 8, 2018.On this special edition of River to River, host Ben Kieffer and producer Emily Woodbury join a hundred…
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This episode originally aired on April 12, 2018.Robert de la Rochefoucald was captured by the Nazis three times during World War II. He was an aristocrat,…
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As a boy growing up in Czechoslovakia, Ivan Backer escaped the Holocaust. In this hour of River to River, Backer recounts how his family fled Europe…
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In a boxcar headed to Switzerland, 13-year-old Celina Karp—a "Schindler Jew"—was shocked to instead find herself at the Auschwitz concentration camp when…