Who Knows, Who Has Heard? The Story of the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives

With these words, the radio program "Who Knows, Who Has Heard?" began three times a week, broadcast from 1945 onwards on the Kol Yerusha­layim (The Voice of Jerusalem, later Kol Israel) radio station with an inter­national reach. The program was used to search for missing persons whose whose traces had been lost in the Holocaust and who were sought by rela­tives after the end of the war.


In their one-hour radio play, authors Noam Brusilovsky and Ofer Waldman have recon­structed the original broad­cast to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The radio play is based on histo­rical broad­cast scripts in German, Yiddish, English and Hebrew, which are held in the Zionist Archive in Jerusalem.


In coope­ration with rbb, they present the radio play and talk to the author duo Noam Brusi­lovsky and Ofer Waldman about the unusual research and production.

The event is part of the city-wide theme week 80 Years of the End of the War - Liberation of Europe from National Socialism, initiated and funded by the State of Berlin, realized by Kultur­projekte Berlin with numerous partners. 


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