Featuring Maren Montalbano as Josephine Pasternak and Magdalena Scholl, Liv Redpath as Sophie Scholl, Ben Fankhauser as Hans Scholl, Randal Keith as Kurt Huber and Robert Scholl, Nicholas Ward as Alexander Schmorell, Jon Lee Keenan as Willi Graf, Abdiel Gonzalez as Christoph Probst, Jennifer Rosenfeld as herself.

With Nathan Cole (violin), Gloria Lum (cello), Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), and Jennifer Rosenfeld (piano.

Music and Lyrics by Jennifer Rosenfeld
Additional Lyrics by Josephine Pasternak and Wayne Self

Music Direction: Larry Pressgrove
Casting: Paul Hardt

Produced by Jennifer Rosenfeld
Associate Producers: Sam Bird, Larry Pressgrove
Engineered, edited, mixed, and mastered by Louis Ng, Lenson Productions
Additional engineering by Charles Mueller, Oktaven Audio

Podcast Editing & Mixing: Sam Bird
Podcast Creative Direction: Elkhanah Pulitzer

Cover Artwork and Illustrations: Jennifer Rosenfeld
Graphic & Booklet Design: Alex Allen
Web Design: Beth Beauchamp

Jennifer and her high school best friend, Julia Levitan, discuss Jennifer's multi-year creative journey bringing the White Rose to life as a musical.

Featuring musical performances by Liv Redpath, Maren Montalbano, Lawrence Jones, Thomas McCargar, Arunima Kohli and Eric Tuan

Jennifer speaks with Stanford University Professor Lazar Fleishman, a leading scholar of the life and works of Boris Pasternak. They discuss the many unexpected connections between the White Rose and the Pasternak family, as well as the strange influences that Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany had on each other during the 1930s and 40s, despite their animosity.

Jennifer speaks with Professor Elizabeth Bernhardt, Director of the Stanford Language Center, about the perception of the White Rose in Germany, the writings of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and more.

Featuring readings by Maren Montalbano

Jennifer Rosenfeld describes how discovering an unpublished essay by Josephine Pasternak in the Hoover Archives at Stanford University led her on an unexpected journey writing a musical about the White Rose. This episode explores the surprising and coincidental connections between Josephine Pasternak and the members of the White Rose.

This episode features spoken performances by Randal Keith and Maren Montalbano.

Tune into the White Rose Podcast beginning February 18th to learn about an inspiring instance of resistance in Nazi Germany, as well as Jennifer Rosenfeld's journey of writing a musical on the topic.