Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Regents’ Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
“I’m a Jewish intellectual historian. … I love to identify new areas, to identify problems and say ‘OK, this is an issue, this is a problem nobody has worked on it, now let’s go in there, let’s try to figure out what’s going on, lets try to put some order in the chaos.'”
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In April 1944, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler miraculously escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and fled through Nazi-occupied Poland to find refuge in Žilina, Slovakia, where they connected with the Jewish Underground. Once safe, they recounted what they left behind. Their harrowing testimony revealed the true horror of the Holocaust to the outside world, describing in forensic detail the gas chambers and the full extent of the Nazi extermination program.
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A student of Sigmund Freud and an Austrian detective team up to solve some of the most mysterious and deadly cases in early 1900s Vienna. The series "Vienna Blood" airs on Arizona PBS Sundays at 9 p.m. starting Jan 19.
