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Freakonomics Radio

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Did the Holocaust Take a Toll on Your Mental Health?

We need to have a kind of reckoning and a conversation about just at a time when our own institutions seem fragile. It's not without some spectacularly heroic people and organizations that never get credit. The jewish joint distribution committee, the hebre emigrant aid society are one tiny but enormous bright spot in this avalanche of unthinkable horror. And we underwrite the celebrated rau wallenberg, who's a swedish diplomat in hungary. He and other people in the international community in budapest save tens of thousands of people. But it doesn't happen unless you actually have an official bureaucrat or someone like him fighting above his weight gets something done. We're in the business of telling

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