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Today we’re focusing on a woman whose quiet courage changed the course of history — Miep Gies.

You might know her as the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. But Miep’s life story is much richer than that moment alone. It’s a story of compassion, bravery, and moral conviction in a time when silence could mean complicity, and speaking out could cost you everything.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/miep-gies/

https://www.biography.com/history-culture/miep-gies

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miep-gies

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46579517/miep-gies

https://hmd.org.uk/resource/miep-gies/

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!

Today, we travel back to the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — July, 1863. The Civil War is raging. Muskets crack. Cannons thunder. And amid the chaos, a 20-year-old woman kneads bread dough in her sister’s kitchen.

Her name is Jennie Wade, she will become the only direct civilian casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Jennie Wade wasn’t a soldier. She wasn’t a spy. She wasn’t part of any grand political plot. She was a daughter, a sister, and a seamstress— born May 21, 1843, right in the town that would soon become infamous.

Sources:

https://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/jennie-wade-house/history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Skelly

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7606339/jack-skelly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Wade

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-virginia-jennie-wade

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1064/jennie-wade

newspapers.com sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1142375889/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/38246632/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/24457449/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/904937499/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

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Logo Artwork: Strawbeary Studios https://www.youtube.com/@StrawbearyStudios/featured

Episode was researched, written and edited by Shanoa

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Hello and welcome to Breakfast with Mom! Today we talk about one of the most destructive fires in American history, The Peshtigo Fire of 1871. Please leave of a review of this episode wherever you listen- it helps us to reach new listeners.

Sources-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo,_Wisconsin

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS1750

https://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire

https://www.history.com/articles/peshtigo-fire-america-deadliest-wildfire

https://peshtigofiremuseum.com/

https://peshtigofiremuseum.com/list-of-dead-in-peshtigo/

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Music: "Electronic Rock (King Around Here)" by Alex Grohl https://pixabay.com/music/search/electronic%20rock%20king

Logo Artwork: Strawbeary Studios https://www.youtube.com/@StrawbearyStudios/featured

Episode was researched, written and edited by Shanoa

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X (formerly Twitter): @breakfastmompod

Email: breakfastwithmompodcast@gmail.com