SC EP001: Introduction to Sara’s Century

In the introductory episode, we meet Sara Mebel, Russian émigré and family member of Laurie Bernstein who created this oral history. Though Soviet socialism opened many doors to her, Sara paid a price when her father became a victim of Stalin's Terror. Sara was a loyal Soviet citizen, but open antisemitism after the USSR's collapse drove her from her homeland forever.

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“Sara’s Century” explores how revolution, war, and immigration affected a single individual, in this case a Jewish émigré born in the Soviet Union in 1919.