S3E11: Evgenia’s Shapiro’s Centropa interview: He could never forgive them. Until he could.

Centropa Stories

narrated by

Jane Bertish

Jakob Shapiro was a highly decorated Army officer who railed against Jews leaving their motherland for Israel. A construction engineer, he worked on building sites until he was 86. In his final years, Jakob Shapiro mused, “I’ll bet I would have done well there,” he said. “Guess I should have gone, too.”