Ellen Burka escaped deportation to Nazi Death Camps Auschwitz and Sobibor because she was a figure skating star. She was sent to concentration camp Theresienstadt instead and survived the Holocaust. After the war she settled in Canada with her two daughters Petra and Astra and became an immensely successful skating coach. Ellen’s daughter Astra made a film about her mother’s life called ‘Skate to Survive’. We talk to Astra about Ellen’s inspiring story, and Astra’s own work as an architect and filmmaker.
When he was eighty years old, Boudewyn van Oort was told that he had suffered from PTSD. His early youth in a wartime Japanese...
Why a small town on the Iowa prairie is the heart of Dutch-America. Tulip time, almond cookies and the Klompen Classic. With special guest...
Mike Wixson discovers why Tom Bijvoet came to Canada, and how he founded a publishing business producing books, magazines and podcasts for the Dutch...
