A Small Light

A promise made in a wartime hospital. A child who could not be discovered. A woman who refused to leave him behind. This episode of A Small Light follows Gertruda Babilinska and Michael Stolowitzky across one of the most extraordinary acts of devotion to come out of the Holocaust. From a mansion in Warsaw to the Vilna ghetto, from a freezing sewer to the deck of the Exodus 1947 , this is a story t...

In January 1945, inside a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, an American master sergeant was ordered to identify the Jewish soldiers under his command. He refused. Facing a loaded pistol, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds told a German officer: “We are all Jews here.” This episode of A Small Light tells the true story of an ordinary man from Tennessee whose moral courage saved Jewish American soldiers during...

In this introductory episode, host Shifra Corrigan explains the purpose of A Small Light and the stories at its heart. This podcast explores the lives of the Righteous Among the Nations—ordinary people who risked everything to save Jews during the Holocaust—alongside the courage and resistance of the Jews they helped. In a time of rising antisemitism, these stories remind us what one person’s mora...