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War Survival Stories

War Survival Stories

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Civilians at war do not get uniforms, orders, or medals. They get a front line that arrives at their doorstep and a choice nobody should have to make. This show tells the true stories of civilians at war: the families, doctors, teachers, and children caught inside conflicts they never chose.

Each episode reconstructs one true story in full, cinematic detail: the city surrounded, the checkpoint that decided who passed, the basement that became a hospital, the neighbor who became an informer. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating politics. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from diaries, letters, and the testimony of the civilians who lived it.

You will follow civilians smuggling bread through siege lines, villagers hiding strangers under their floors, and ordinary people forced to negotiate with armies for their families' lives. Some episodes follow a single family through one terrible week; others trace a town's entire war from the day the soldiers arrived to the day they left. All of them treat civilians at war as what they are: the war's true center, not its background.

If you are drawn to war stories told from the inside of the house instead of the top of the hill, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained story of civilians at war. Subscribe now so the next one lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Scienze sociali
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  • The Merch Table: Why One Man Died and Another Broke

    The Merch Table: Why One Man Died and Another Broke
    Oct 31 2026
    At a Paris rock show, a band's merchandise manager is trapped when gunmen attack - how does ordinary commerce become a deadly trap?

    The Merch Table: Why One Man Died and Another Broke

    This episode explores the events of November 13, 2015, at Le Bataclan in Paris, focusing on the fate of the Eagles of Death Metal's merchandise manager and the impact on the band's frontman. It raises questions about the asymmetry of who survived and what that survival meant.

    Event: Le Bataclan attack
    Date: November 13, 2015
    Location: Paris, France
    Band: Eagles of Death Metal
    Victim: Nick Alexander

    - The merchandise table was fully stocked with T-shirts, tour programs, and enamel pins when the shooting began.
    - Nick Alexander, the merchandise manager for Eagles of Death Metal, was at his table when the attack started.
    - Jesse Hughes, frontman of Eagles of Death Metal, was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Palm Desert, California.
    - Hughes and Josh Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, a band known for its sharp riffs and bawdy humor.
    - Homme previously helped Hughes through a serious drug addiction, paying for his rehabilitation.

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    23 min
  • The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out

    The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out
    Oct 30 2026
    A Japanese American doctor is forced into an internment camp, where the US government demands she deliver babies in a converted horse racetrack.

    The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out

    This episode explores the extraordinary life of Dr. Kazue Togasaki, a Japanese American physician who delivered fifty babies in a World War II internment camp. It examines the contradictions of her situation and the resilience that defined her path in medicine.

    Person: Kazue Togasaki
    Date: June 29, 1897 (birth)
    Location: Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California
    Event: World War II internment

    - Kazue Togasaki was born in San Bruno in 1897, the eldest of nine children in a Japanese immigrant family.
    - At age nine, she translated for Japanese immigrant women in a makeshift hospital after the 1906 San Bruno earthquake.
    - Despite racial segregation in schools and discrimination in hospital employment, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Stanford in 1920.
    - She then became a registered nurse in 1924 and pursued a public health degree in 1927.
    - In 1933, at 35, she earned her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, becoming one of the earliest Japanese American women to do so.

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    18 min
  • The Eyelid Surgery That Tried to Hide Him and Lost

    The Eyelid Surgery That Tried to Hide Him and Lost
    Oct 29 2026
    A 23-year-old American gets eyelid surgery and refuses removal from California-how did his attempt to hide him expose the government?

    The Eyelid Surgery That Tried to Hide Him and Lost

    In this episode we follow the choices and obstacles surrounding one man’s refusal to leave his California home during wartime and the legal fight that followed. It traces why he altered his appearance, who took his case, and what risks those defenders faced in challenging military orders.

    Person: Fred Korematsu
    Date: May 30, 1942
    Location: San Leandro, California
    Event: Refusal to report to assembly center
    Organization: ACLU Northern California chapter

    - He had surgery on his eyelids, adopted the name Clyde Sarah, and claimed Spanish-Hawaiian ancestry to avoid exclusion.
    - He was arrested at age twenty-three on a San Leandro street corner and taken to a San Leandro jail.
    - Ernest Besig, ACLU Northern California director, sought a test case and recruited Korematsu from his cell.
    - National ACLU leadership refused to support the case, citing fears of appearing unpatriotic during wartime.
    - Besig assigned Wayne M. Collins to represent Korematsu and proceeded without national backing.

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    20 min
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