Reviews are in! Bingeworthy says Cement City is "a unicorn of a series" and calls it "strikingly original." "Am I guilty for enjoying it this much?" she writes. Podcast the Newsletter calls it "an incredible piece of reporting" and "priceless." cementcity.org

Cement City is a The New York Times best podcast of 2024! "An extraordinarily immersive portrait of day-to-day life in a troubled but irreducibly vibrant community." nytimes.com/2024/12/06/art…

Well hey now! Got this news in the middle of a taping for my day job. What terrific news. Proud of you Jeanne Marie Laskas and Erin Anderson . Give it a listen you all! CEMENT CITY is unlike anything else out there. Cement City Productions nytimes.com/2024/12/06/art…

Listening to Cement City by Jeanne Marie Laskas. A reminder that change happens on the ground. cementcity.org

I *really* hope the Auschwitz Museum doesn’t mind, but I’m going to put up snapshots of their online materials because 1) People don’t bother with links 2) There are FAR too many people out there saying the Holocaust never happened 🧵 1/

Cement City is a finalist for ASME's National Magazine Award in podcasting! Congratulations to our team: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Erin Anderson, and Michael Benoist!

Big week for our little podcast!! Cement City Productions Jeanne Marie Laskas Michael Benoist cementcity.org

“Almost all the prominent Nazis came from middle-class families with right-wing values—patriotism, antisemitism, fear of ‘Bolshevism’—for whom righteous violence seemed a sign of manliness.” —Neal Ascherson go.nybooks.com/3FApnWt

14 April 1902 | A Czech Jewish woman, Gertruda Hübscherová, was born in #Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 May 1944. She did not survive.

14 April 1914 | German Jew Heinz Cohn was born in #Dortmund. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 April 1943 in a transport of 668 Jews deported from #Berlin. He did not survive.

14 April 1897 | A Polish Jew, Lewi Lipsker, was born in Nowy Sącz. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941. No. 24319 He perished in the camp on 19 December 1941.

14 April 1920 | Czech Jewish woman, Věra Immergutová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.

15 April 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Rachel Abramowicz, was born in Paris to Icek & Itta. Itta was deported from Drancy on 2 Sep 1943. Icek, Rachel & her brother Joseph arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews. They were murdered in a gas chamber.

26 April 1938 | A Czech Jewish girl, Eva Weintraubová, was born. In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 20 November 1942. On 15 December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her elder brother Pavel. They both did not survive.

26 April 1895 | A Polish woman, Ewa Herman, was born in Masłomęcz. In #Auschwitz form 5 February 1943. No. 34382 She perished in the camp on 1 February 1944.

26 kwietnia 1920 | W Amsterdamie urodziła się holenderska Żydówka Mina Leuw. Szwaczka maszynowa. W grudniu 1942 r. została deportowana do #Auschwitz i zamordowana w komorze gazowej.

27 April 1925 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Bloch, was born in Paris. On 31 July 1944 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

✡️Anita Brandeisová Born in Prague on October 2, 1936. Of Jewish origin, she was deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto to the Auschwitz concentration camp. She was murdered immediately upon arrival after the Selection.

27 April 1937 | Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Fischerová, was born in Prague. She was deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz on 18 May 1944. She was placed in the family camp BIIb at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She did not survive.

Four young Greek-Jewish cousins (Graciella Raphael, Graciella Cohen, Eni Cohen, and Ninetta Matsas) visit their grandparents in Delvine, Albania. Only Ninetta survived the Holocaust. The others were deported from Greece to #Auschwitz, where they perished. #WomenintheHolocaust