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Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA201026

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Featuring Guest

1. Astrid Harper, Author, From Hitler to Trump - An Immigrant's Story

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Featured Guest:

1.  Astrid Harper recounts her growing up under Hitler's regime and post war Germany. Astrid was born during Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. This pogrom against Jews on November 9 and 10 of 1938 by SA paramilitary and civilians destroyed Jewish storefronts and synagogues while deporting 30,000 Jewish men to Concentration Camps. Astrid chose the title From Hitler to Trump because of the national leaders who ruled at the beginning and end of her memoir, and the similarities between these two are not lost on Astrid who lists 9 in her book and mentions some of them for our listeners. Astrid conveys a picture during this moving interview of the hard struggle to survive the terror of the bombings during the war, and after the defeat of the Nazis as the Russian troops occupied her home's region she as a 7 year old experienced the terror of hunger and homelessness for a couple of months. After 9 months of living with her grandmother in East Germany (DDR) her father arranged for her to be smuggled to West Germany over the border watched by armed soldiers. In 1960, having just been schooled in bilingual (German and English) secretarial work, her father arranged with the German tire manufacturer Continental to hire her for their New York City office, and a couple of years later she was able to be transferred to the San Francisco office, where a few years later she became a naturalized citizen. The memoir includes her 60 years in the USA which was not the focus of this interview. Astrid writes this memoir to serve as a warning on the lure of authoritarians, and as a recognition of talent, experience and economic contribution that immigrants bring to this nation.

About our Guest:  Astrid Harper was born in 1938 in Germany, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 and became a naturalized citizen in 1967. She has lived in New York, San Francisco, Long Beach, California, Windsor, and Santa Rosa. Most of her career was spent as a marketing and advertising manager. She has also developed significant export business for several employers. Astrid continues to work as a freelance copywriter and translator on the Upwork platform where she is top-rated. She also works now as a book editor for McCaa Books of Santa Rosa. Her memoir entitled FROM HITLER TO TRUMP was published by McCaa Books and is available on Amazon

Guest Links: 

From Hitler to Trump - an Immigrant's Story is published by McCaa Books of Santa Rosa http://mccaabooks.com/fhtt.html
and is available at Amazon

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Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Birthdays:

November 2, 1936 (1999) – Rose Elizabeth Bird, attorney, first woman in California to hold a cabinet position (Secretary of Agriculture), allowed workers to unionize, appointed Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1977, defeated in 1987 by conservatives because she opposed the death penalty.

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project's YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women's Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 - November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show