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Nick Baker and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. |
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Programme 2 |
24 October 2006 |
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London's Underground Rivers
Making History goes in search of the River Westbourne which, supposedly, passes over the District Line platforms of Sloane Square Underground station in London in a pipe.
Making History consulted Dr Stuart Downward at Kingston University http://www.kingston.ac.uk/esg/staff/downward.htm
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Lodz Ghetto
In the spring of 1940, the German forces occupying Poland drove the Jews of Lodz into the Holocaust's second-largest and most hermetically-sealed ghetto. It functioned both as a sweatshop serving the German war effort, and a prison for Jews en route to the death camps of Chelmno and Auschwitz. Self-governed by its Council of Elders - with its own police force, currency and postage stamps - its leader was the notorious Chaim Rumkowski. He complied with Nazi orders, believing that the value of Lodz's labour might secure survival for the majority. History proved him decisively wrong: 95% of the ghetto's inmates perished. Those who survived starvation rations, disease and prior deportations were removed to the gas chambers of Auschwitz when the ghetto was liquidated in 1944.
Henryk Ross was a photographer employed by the ghetto's Department of Statistics who kept a clandestine diary of ghetto life in powerful and often brilliant images. When the ghetto's liquidation began, he buried them. A survivor, he dug them up after the war, releasing many that were to become icons of the Holocaust's atrocities. But he released only a minority of the pictures during his lifetime. After Ross's death in 1991, his archive - the most extensive collection of ghetto photographs by any single photographer - was acquired by the Archive of Modern Conflict in London.
Incredibly, at a Holocaust remembrance day in Nottingham in 2004, Making History listener Helena Aronson saw herself in one of Henryk Ross's photographs and a story that she had kept secret for over 50 years was finally told.
Useful links
Details of the photographic exhibition - part of the In
Information on the Lodz Ghetto can be found at
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Thomas Mawe - Eighteenth century gardener and author
Listener Michael Stacey discovered he had an ancestor called Thomas Mawe who was a 'steward' on the Duke of Leeds estate at North Mymms in Hertfordshire. Recently, Michael discovered a book called Every Man His Own Gardener which became a best seller and was written by a John Abercrombie and Thomas Mawe - the latter also associated with the Duke of Leeds at North Mymms… Are these two Mawes the same person?
Book by Thomas Mawe :
Every Man his own Gardener. 8th ed, MAWE, Thomas and John ABERCROMBIE ABERCROMBIE, John (Publisher: S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and W. Goldsmith , 1779,)
Making History consulted:
Brent Elliott the Librarian at the
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý