8. "Good" Crimes: Emma Goldman & Irena Sendler - a podcast by Pink Collar Pod

Our pets are the only thing keeping us sane during this pandemic. We briefly ponder the family status of our pets...are they our pseudo siblings? Parents? Children? Eventually, we keep things light by talking about some good crimes. Nathalie starts us off with the story of Emma Goldman, a political activist and writer. Goldman was an anarchist who championed for women’s and worker’s rights. She illegally distributed information about birth control and was arrested many times for her protests. Rachel tells the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled children out of German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. She was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured, but she refused to give up the names of the children or her associates.

Music by Joseph McDade www.patreon.com/josephmcdade/posts

Nathalie's Sources

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-control-pioneer-arrested

https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman/womens-rights/birth-control

https://time.com/4208056/emma-goldman-1916-birth-control/

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-11/

https://muvs.org/en/topics/pioneers/emma-goldman-1869-1940-en/

Rachel's Sources:

Irena Sendler

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irena-sendler

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, by Jack Mayer

https://www.jackmayer.net/life-in-a-jar

Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, is Dead at 98, by Dennis Hevesi

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/europe/13sendler.html

Irena Sendler, Polish Social Worker, by The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irena-Sendler

Irena Sendler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler

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