New World Street | Litro Lab Podcast

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This week on Litro Lab, Hannah Hardt reads “New world Street” in which Ulica Nowy Świat, an immigrant’s daughter unlocks the mystery of her father Zbyszek’s recurring nightmares by listening to his war stories and traveling with him to the once Polish city of Lwów (today’s Lviv, Ukraine) to face his past.

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New World Street Podcast

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Hannah Hardt recently completed a mid-life Master’s Degree in history at Harvard University. The topic of her thesis was her Grandmother Adela’s secret war diary. In her memoir in progress, Hannah searches for her Polish Catholic family history in the archives of Poland, Ukraine and Germany and discovers their surprising role in the Holocaust.

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