{"id":4246,"date":"2026-06-23T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:52:00","slug":"podcast-choosing-hope-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8216;Choosing Hope Daily&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Martha was cast in the play <em>And Then They Came For Me,<\/em> first as a member of the &#8216;Hitler Youth&#8217; and then in the lead role of &#8216;Young Eva&#8217;, Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss &#8211; Anne Frank&#8217;s posthumous stepsister &#8211; became a major part of her life for more than a decade. Martha portrayed Eva on stage, followed her around the world for her film <em>Eva&#8217;s Mission <\/em>and came to know her as a friend. For a decade, she explored with Eva the horrors of the Holocaust, becoming a <em>witness of the witness<\/em>. Find out more about Eva&#8217;s &amp; Martha&#8217;s  journey on our Facebook Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/evasmissionthefilm\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/evasmissionthefilm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this conversation with Adam Gell for his podcast \u2018Inspiring Minds\u2019, Martha reflects on her profoundly transformative journey with Eva, the making of <em>Eva\u2019s Mission<\/em>, and how we can carry Eva\u2019s torch forward now that she is no longer with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the interview here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martha Van Der Bly on Eva Schloss: Choosing Hope After Auschwitz  | Adam Gell\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wjNM06AgtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Martha was cast in the play And Then They Came For Me, first as a member of the &#8216;Hitler Youth&#8217; and then in the lead role of &#8216;Young Eva&#8217;, Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss &#8211; Anne Frank&#8217;s posthumous stepsister &#8211; became a major part of her life for more than a decade. Martha portrayed Eva on stage, followed her around the world for her film Eva&#8217;s Mission and came to know her as a friend. For a decade, she explored with Eva the horrors of the Holocaust, becoming a witness of the witness. In this conversation with Adam Gell for his podcast \u2018Inspiring Minds\u2019, Martha reflects on her profoundly transformative journey with Eva, the making of Eva\u2019s Mission, and how we can carry Eva\u2019s torch forward now that she is no longer with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}