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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance
Welcome to the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance - Obligations Of Memory ✡︎ Podcast. The mission of the Podcast is to present Jewish culture and a renewed reflection about the Holocaust and Antisemitism today.
A Channel where Jews and non-Jews that have an interest in Jewish history and culture and can learn and share mutual experiences. In these Obligation Of Memory Podcasts, you'll find relevant interviews that discuss many aspects of Jewish life, its culture, memories and lessons of the Holocaust and other Genocides. The goal is #neveragain and #werememberyou.
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This is Jeffery Giesener, Founder of Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 and Stand Against HATE International Communities and creator and producer of the film.TURN...TURN...TURN...SHANA TOVA: A High Holidays Musical. Thanks for joining us for the start of our Fall 2024 International Film Festival TURN...TURN... TURN... is a two-part film, with the second part coming on October 6th, 2024You’ll Enjoy Part One, Shana Tova: a contemporary musical film for all ages. Coming October 6th is Part Two:/Three/and Four. Part Two:Musaf, Understanding a deeper dive into learning more about the customs and philosophies of the High Holidays. Part Three: Yizkor, In Memorium, a deeply emotive and reflective remembrance of lives and loved ones lost. Part Four, Neila:The Closing. We all look forward to another year of joy, laughter, health, and happiness and to one’s ability to overcome life’s hardships. I have wanted to create TURN...TURN...TURN...for many years, and with the art of filmmaking, I am now bringing it to you this Exclusive Film FREE On-Demand. TURN...TURN...TURN..will provide years of delight for your entire family. A WORD OF CAUTION: Some material in the In Memorium section of the film should not be seen by people ages ten and under. Also, the photos, video, recordings, music, pictures, and content of this section may be disturbing to some who suffer, like I do, from Intergenerational Survivor Trauma or PTSD disorders. SPECIAL THANKS TO:IN ORDER OF APPEARANCESHALOM SESAMEALANA ADRIANTHE FOUNTAINHEADSTHE SCHUKLERSMACCABEESNOAH AARONSONTALI RUBENSTEINJAY GILBERTSIX 13RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHLCANTOR DANIELLE RODINZKICANTOR AMANDA KLEINMANMATYA COHENJULIE A. SILVERCANTOR CANDRIANRABBI BUCHDAHLALANA ADRIANIZZYCANTOR AZI SCHWARTZ All of our On-Demand Films are FREE to all audiences. Please help us by subscribing to the YouTube channel for Jewish Culture and Holocaust 10 7 so you will be automatically notified of the new On-Demand Films released weekly. Jeffery Giesener, the Founder, curates and produces each film. Please share this free, on-demand film widely with your family and friends of all religions and in your social media communities. We STAND with Israel. All Rights ReservedReleased: September 22nd, 2024
THE WAY OUT...WORK - The Lodz Ghetto Story Created and Produced by Jeffery B. GiesenerThe Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7th Remembrance - STAND AGAINST HATE! International Communities presents the documentary film... THE WAY OUT...WORK: The Lodz Ghetto Story.“THE ONLY WAY OUT was the slogan of Chaim Rumkowski, the head of the ghetto’s Council of Jewish Elders, who were entrusted with setting up a model economy in the Lodz Ghetto. The Lodz Ghetto was enclosed by barbed wire on April 30, 1940, imprisoned over 250,000 Jews, with the population later increased by 20,000 Jews from Germany, Bohemia, and Austria and by 18,000 from towns around Lodz. In increasingly overcrowded and filthy conditions, the Jewish workers were forced to manufacture a wide array of items for Germany’s home-front market and for the armed forces, including Concentration Camp uniforms.After the Holocaust, only 877 Jews survived the Ghetto. Two that did survive both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz were the parents of Mark H. Newhouse, our guest presenter, along with his son, a 3rd Generation Survivor, Keith Newhouse. Keith interviews his father as a core component of the film. Keith provides a lively and thorough interview of Mark H. Newhouse, the author of the historical fiction trilogy novel The Devil's Bookkeepers.Mark has based his historical fiction trilogy on the authentic, signed "Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto" that his parents brought to America from Poland after the Holocaust. Mark used the Chronicle as part of his book research. Was Rumkowski complicit in helping the Nazis deport and exterminate over 20,000 Jewish children, babies, the elderly, and the sickly in selections and deportations to Chemlo and Auschwitz Extermination Camps? That is for you to judge as you watch the film?Like all of the Jews from the Lodz Ghetto, when Rumkowski was no longer helpful to the NAZIS, he was deported to Auschwitz. It is alleged that Rumkowski was murdered by Jewish SonderKomandos in the Auschwitz Crematorium.Keith's terrific, well-researched interview with Mark is the foundation of "THE ONLY WAY OUT film along with actual footage of the Lodz Ghetto and its history. You will also be toured around Lodz today and through the use of photos and historical film clips from 1940-1945 you will be transported back in time. Special Thanks To ZOLA - (Zola Shuman) for contributing her music to the film's soundtrack. Zola is an active member of our International JCHR107 Community..A word of caution and a TRIGGER WARNING! The subject matter of this Holocaust film may challenge some Survivors and Generational Survivor audience members. The photos, video, recordings, music, pictures, and content of this film may be disturbing to some who suffer from Intergenerational Survivorship Trauma or PTSD disorders. There are no concentration camp scenes in this film. Like THE WAY OUT...all of our On-Demand Films are FREE to all audiences. Please help us grow and share our films by subscribing to the YouTube channel for Jewish Culture and Holocaust on October 7. You will be automatically notified of the new On-Demand Films released weekly. Please share this film widely with your family and friends of all religions. Join Our Communities...Jewish Culture and Holocausr & October 7 Remembrance, STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIES on...Facebook Our companion website. Join by clicking the button at the top right of the home page..Jeffery Giesener, the Founder, creates and produces each film. Comment to let me know how you enjoyed the film. We all must do our part to push back against Holocaust Denial and Stand Against Hate. And we STAND with Israel. There is also a companion film 'PHOTOGRAPHER," which is streaming on YouTube, located here. • The Lodz Ghetto. Fotoamator, Photogra... All Rights ReservedReleased 9.15.2024
IN OUR MEMORIES KITCHEN -- Created and Produced by Jeffery B. GiesenerContinue to watch 'IN YOUR MEMORIES KITCHEN - OVERTIME', which is also featured on our YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9KuJEBNgA&t=170sIN OUR MEMORIES KITCHENThanks for joining us for this beautiful, dynamic 2-part program of food memories and recipe stories about how Concentration Camp survivors lived through starvation and inhumane conditions while still demonstrating strength and resilience against the NAZIS. You'll witness amazing stories from Second Generation Survivors whose parents proactively fought against life-or-death experiences and severe personal risk in the Camps by speaking about recipes, memorializing them in writing, and experiencing food memories of their childhood. To listen and realize how their parents overcame the most torturous of crimes is a testament to their human spirit and will to live! Please also watch IN OUR MEMORIES KITCHEN - OVERTIME, which is also featured on / @jewishcultureshoah Our Featured Survivor guests, those who are currently with us and those of blessed memory, are Rachene Kanter, Murray Keineg, Elsa Brunner, Tova Friedman, Eugene Ginter, Sami Steigman, Jacqueline Gemach, Ruth Zimbler, Alice Ahart, Naomi Block, Steven Fenves, Jill. Recipe Authors and their Holocaust Food memory and recipe Books are: Cara, De, Silva of blessed memory - In Memories Kitchen: June Hersh - Food, Hope, and Resilience: Eva Moreremi - Hidden Recipes - A Holocaust Memoir: Dana Shrager - Founder of DanaTable.com, Facebook's Jewish Cooking Community, and a well-known Los Angeles, California food blogger: Jeffery Geisener, or Jeff The Baker: is better known as the Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust October 7 Remembrance Community. Thanks to our Guests and Content Contributors:Sebastian Maniscalco - ComedianJackie Mason - Comedian and RabbiJoan Nathan - Jewish Cookbook AuthorBuzzFeedCBS - Sunday MorningUnited States Memorial Holocaust MuseumJamie Elman and Eli Batalion - Jews Speaking Yiddish at a Chinese RestaurantMembers of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October Remembrance International CommunityEttie Zilber - Author and 2GFriedA Viesel - Hasidic Food VloggerSteven Fenves - SurvivorJill Stein - SurvivorNorm Lief Halpern - SurvivorRuth Zimbler - SurvivorAriel - Selfhelp.netAlice Ahart - SurvivorWilliam Robin - SurvivorJeffery has recreated 50 of his Survivor Mom's (Eva) European pastries and posted the recipes on the community website in The Eva's Kitchen Recipe Channel. at www.JCHRnow.circle.so Make sure you catch Jeffery's Mom's recipe for Eastern European Hotcakes with a distinctive twist in In MEMORIES KITCHEN—OVERTIME. The recipe is located here.https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/in-mama-s... A word of caution. Even in a Food Recipes documentary, the subject matter may cause challenges for some.All of our On-Demand Films are FREE to all audiences. Join Our Communities...Jewish Culture and Holocausr & October 7 Remembrance, STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIES on...Facebook www.facebook/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembrance www.theonerevolutionnnow www.facebook/groups/theonerevolutionnnow Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join by clicking the button at the top right of the home page..EVA'S KITCHEN RECIPES are found here https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/in-mama-s...Again, please subscribe and comment to let me know how you enjoyed the film. Please share this free on-demand film widely with your family and friends of all religions and in all your social media communities. We all must do our part to push back against Holocaust Denial and Stand Against Hate. And we STAND with Israel. Enjoy today’s On-Demand Film, IN OUR MEMORIES KITCHEN and IN OUR MEMORIES KITCHEN - OVERTIMERecorded 8.15.2024Released September 8, 2024All Rights Reserved
JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN - THE HEADLINE FILM FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE JCRNOW.CIRCLE.SOThe Jewish Culture and Holocaust and October 7th Remembrance International Community, JCHRnow.circle.so and STAND AGAINST HATE! Community www.JCHRnow.circle.so our companion website...PRESENTS: International Film Festival Double Feature...: JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN A documentary film about the legendary comedic force Jerry Lewis with narration from himself. Enjoy many of his most hilarious skits and movie clips throughout his long career. Featuring his sidekick partner Dean Martin.Films are Created and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder The Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 Remembrance and STAND AGAINST HATE International includes our two Facebook Communities, Spotify, Apple, Google, and multiple YouTube Communities. Also, be sure to check out JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Our combined worldwide Communities now have over 25,000 members, users, streamers, and website visitors. Please subscribe to The Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 Remembrance YouTube Channel by clicking the Subscribe Button on the YouTube page. Comment, Like, and Share these educational and entertainment programs with friends and family of all religions. Special Thanks To:Veritas Films, IncCityscapes, IncRelax Top Music, Inc.Jerry Lewis Collections, IncJohnny Carson Inc.MusicZOLA (Zola Shuman - South Africa Judith Tellerman- Chicago Carla Berg - San DiegoLechta Lichtenberg - Canada BASIA - BrazilJulie A. Silver - New YorkConnie Evingston - UKCaro Emerald - ColumbiaNicky Parrot - FranceNoa Yosioka - JapanKathy Kosins - USAAll films are streamed on Demand and are Absolutely FREE of charge to everyone. Each film was created and produced by Jeffery Giesener, founder, and each honors the memory of my survivor parents. All the Films are intended to Educate on the facts of Jewish history and the Holocaust, Fight Against Holocaust Denial and the October 7th Memorial, and Push Back Against Scaling Antisemitism that we are all experiencing. We must all do our part to STAND AGAINST HATE!Now enjoy over 170 Jewish-themed film programs on our Jewish Culture and Holocaust and October 7 YouTube Media Channel at www.youtube,com/@jewishcultureshoah/videos Subscribe and share your comments about the programs with me. Just add your comment at the bottom of the film page.Easily JOIN Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 Remembrance, STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIES on...Facebook www.facebook/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembrance www.theonerevolutionnnow www.facebook/groups/theonerevolutionnnow Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join by clicking the button at the top right of the home page..Recorded 7.8.2024All Rights Reserved
MY NAME IS...ONE MOMENT IN TIME - THE EARLY YEARSCreated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust October 7th Remembrance and STAND AGAINST HATE! International Communities (JCHR107). Check out www.JCHRnow.circle.so, which is our companion website. Everything Jewish...Every Day1We are now over 25,000 STRONG!Jeffery Giesener here, and I am pleased to share my latest film MY NAME IS...ONE MOMENT IN TIME - THE EARLY YEARSA Look Back on her musical journey since her 1975 Broadway premiere, 'I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE!'I know you will enjoy this film as much as I did creating and producing the film.Jeffery Giesener, the founder, created and produced all the films and zooms found on the JCHR October 7 on the YouTube Media Channel. The Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 Remembrance and STAND AGAINST HATE International includes our two Facebook Communities, Spotify, Apple, Google, and multiple YouTube Communities. Also, be sure to check out JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Our combined worldwide Communities now have over 25,000 members, users, streamers, and website visitors. Please help us grow the YouTube Media Channel by subscribing, Liking, and Commenting on films you watch. Click the Subscribe Button on the YouTube page under the film area. Then, comment, like, and Share these educational and entertainment programs with friends and family of all religions. I love hearing how you enjoyed the film by sharing your comments. Credits: You Can Buy It Wholesale and moreAdele and James Cordon; Courtesy of CBS, Inc. - Don't Rain On My ParadeNatalie Dessay and Michel LeGrande - Papa Can You Hear MeNina Tribus - The Way We WerePetra Berger - Woman In LoveDoris Day - MemoriesShirley Bassy - PeopleLyndsey Mendez - Who KnowsPearl Bailey - Hello DollyTracey Jordon and Joe Longthorne - You Don't Bring Me FlowersJudy Garland, and Ethel Merman - There Is No Business Like Show BusinessLea Michelle - My ManWhat's My LineGroucho MarxNeima Nauri - A Piece of SkyKoolulam - Bring Them Home NowJeffery Giesener - Creator and ProducerDid you know there are over 170 Jewish-themed film programs on our Jewish Culture and Holocaust and October 7 YouTube Media Channel at / @jewishcultureshoah , and they are all FREE to stream? Easily JOIN Jewish Culture and Holocaust & October 7 Remembrance, STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIES on...Facebook www.facebook/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembrance www.theonerevolutionnnow www.facebook/groups/theonerevolutionnnow Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join by clicking the button at the top right of the home page..Recorded 7.8.2024Released August 18, 2024All Rights Reserved
The Jewish Culture and Holocaust and October 7th Remembrance International Community, JCHRnow.circle.so our companion website and STAND AGAINST HATE! Community Presents:THE HOPE: GOLDA Looking back on our Jewish History often provides a unique perspective and a better understanding of what is happening today. When you watch THE HOPE: GOLDA, a documentary film about one of the most potent, empathetic, and iron-fisted women of the 20th Century. You will leave the film with new insight into Golda Mier, how she impacted Israel during her lifetime, and how her influence continues over what is happening in Israel today. Her personal history, rise to power, ascendancy to the Prime Minister of Israel, the very first woman PM, and its last, to date, provide us with tremendously interesting stories. You can find GOLDA, the feature film for rent, on YouTube at • Golda A word of caution. The subject matter in this film is for mature audiences. The photos, video, recordings, music, pictures, and content of this film may be disturbing to some who suffer, like I do, from Intergenerational Survivor Trauma or PTSD disorders. As a second-generation survivor, I am very cautious about selecting the content for this film. It is nothing you have not seen before. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR 10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle.so. Our companion website.Please subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Channel by clicking the Subscribe Button on the YouTube page. Comment, Like, and Share these educational programs with friends and family. All the program Films are intended to Educate on the facts of Jewish history and the Holocaust and Fight Holocaust Denial. We must all do our part to STAND AGAINST HATE!All Film Programs are always FREE ON DEMAND.Enjoy over 170 Jewish-themed film programs on our Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 YouTube Media Channel at / @jewishcultureshoah Subscribe and share your comments about the programs with me. Just add your comment at the bottom of the film page.JOIN The Jewish Culture and Holocaust and October 7th Remembrance STAND AGAINST HATE! International Communities.Facebook www.facebook/jewishcultureandshoahremembrance www.theonerevolutionnnow Special Thanks To Our Special Guests and Presenters Still to come. Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join by clicking the button at the top right of the home page.Recorded 7.22.2024All Rights ReservedSome additional historical videos that may be of interest:From CBN • The Hope: Golda Meir
The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance/10.7 and THE STAND AGAINST HATE - THE ONE REVOLUTION Communities Presents BROADWAY SCORES with David David BencoffNow For Something Completely DifferentBROADWAY SCORES is a Delightful Exploration of Broadway Musicals and their theme songs. It's a toe-tapping docuseries and collaboration of Broadway musical memories from Jewish creators presented by our special guest David Bencoff of Broadwaymaven.com.Enjoy this On-Demand film, and don’t forget to sing along. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did curating and producing the program. Jeffery Giesener—Founder of Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance/10.7 and THE STAND AGAINST HATE Communities. Thanks for watching the BROADWAY SCORES, and look for another Film release each week through our remaining 2024 summer program season. Thanks to our guest presentersDAVID BENCOFF - BROADWAYMAVEN.COMCARRIE HOPE FLETCHERLIN-MANUEL MIRANDAANFREEA MUNTEANUANSEL ELGORTCHARMAINE NEVILLECHUTNEYCANTOR AZI SCHWARTZJAMES TAYLORJESSE WELLJONATHAN GROFFNORM LEWISTHE SOUND OF MUSIC ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEINVOICE8The Film is presented Free Of Charge. Also, enjoy the more than 170 Jewish-themed programs on Our JCHR10.7 YouTube Media Channel at /@jewishcultureshoah Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR 10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle.so. Our companion website.Please subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Channel by clicking the Subscribe Button on the YouTube page. Then, comment, like, and Share these entertainment programs with friends and family. All programs are always FREE ON-DEMAND.Enjoy over 170 Jewish-themed programming on our Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 YouTube Media Channel at / @jewishcultureshoah Subscribe and share your comments about the programs. Comment and let me know how you liked the film. JOIN Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 & THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIESFacebook / jewishcultureandshoahremembrance / theonerevolutionnnow Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join at the top right button.Recorded 7.12..2024All Rights Reserved
The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance International Community, JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! CommunityPresents:AHEAD OF TIME: The Ruth Gruber Story Thanks for watching the Trailer for another of our 2024 International Film Festival programs entitled...AHEAD OF TIME is a documentary film about the Ruth Gruber story. It is PART ONE, including a history lesson, interviews with Ruth Gruber, historical footage, and commentary from the 1930s and 40s. All Programs Are Absolutely Free On-DemandYou'll enjoy a historically exciting discussion and the companion dramatic feature film, which features Ruth Gruber, one of the world’s most outstanding journalists and Photojournalists of the 20th Century. During this discussion, Ruth provides riveting personal accounts of her experiences in Hitler’s Germany during the 1930s and 40s, along with important historical footage of virulent US antisemitism that was rampant during this period of our history. Proving that Antisemitism has happened many times before in our history. BUT WE SURVIVE. The challenge for all current voting generations today is what to do about it. It is time to exercise your VOTE to save American Democracy! We face an existential threat to our way of life. Haven dramatically reveals how Ruth Gruber bravely helped save more than 1000 Jews from Holocaust Germany in 1944. It also includes scenes of the first US Internment Camp in Oswego, New York, USA, where these Jews were forced to live as guests of Rosevelt but without any rights or state status. They were to be sent back to Germany before Truman granted US citizenship status. The film stars Natasha Richardson as Ruth, Hal Holbrook, and Anne Bancroft among a stellar cast. I know you will enjoy it. A word of caution. The subject matter in this film is for mature audiences. The photos, video, recordings, music, pictures, and content of this film may be disturbing to some who suffer, like I do, from Intergenerational Survivor Trauma or PTSD disorders. As a second-generation survivor, I am very cautious about selecting the content for this film. It is nothing you have not seen before. Please help us by subscribing to the YouTube channel for the Jewish Culture and Holocaust 10 7 so you will be automatically notified of the new On-Demand Films released weekly. Each film is curated and produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder. Again, please subscribe to our YouTube Channel to be notified of the latest Film Releases and share this free On-demand film widely with your family and friends of all religions. We all must do our part to push back against Holocaust Denial and Stand Against Hate. Enjoy today’s On-Demand dramatic feature film. HAVEN: THE RUTH GRUBER STORY PART ONE & TWOCurated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR 10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle.so. Our companion website.Please subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Channel by clicking the Subscribe Button on the YouTube page. Comment, Like, and Share these educational programs with friends and family. All the program Films are intended to Educate on the facts of the Holocaust and Fight Holocaust Denial. We must all do our part to STAND AGAINST HATE!All programs are always FREE ON-DEMAND.Enjoy over 170 Jewish-themed programming on our Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 YouTube Media Channel at / @jewishcultureshoah Subscribe and share your comments about the programs. JOIN Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 & THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! COMMUNITIESFacebook / jewishcultureandshoahremembrance / theonerevolutionnnow Websiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join at the top right button.Recorded 7.12..2024All Rights Reserved
THE TEREZIN DIARIES - JCHRnow.circle.so - Summer ON-DEMAND - July 2024'Terezin Diaries' covers the Terezin Concentration Camp history. It's propaganda, stagecraft, and abuse of Jewish inmates, along with those of all nationalities and religions. (See detailed deportation information below). 'Terazin Diaries' covers Terezin Concentration Camp's history of music making, art, plays, and concerts, including "Brundibar," "The Defiant Requiem," and "In Memory's Kitchen." The film provides a broad storytelling of what happened during the invasion of Czechoslovakia in World War 2 by the Nazis. The deportation of more than 70,000 Jews from around Czechoslovakia into Terezin or Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, and its brutal occupation and harsh administration while all along the ARTS flourished in the Camp. JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE!Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024TEREZIN DIARIES: NOT THE LAST BUTTERFLYA WORD OF CAUTION: Scenes, Photos, Videos, Music, and Subject Matter may disturb some. Note that the film's curator, a second-generation survivor, is very cautious about what content and material is used in the film to avoid undue trauma or PTSD issues.Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR 10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website.Please subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. The program is intended to Educate on the facts of the Holocaust and Fight Holocaust Denial. Please do your part to STAND AGAINST HATE! Share this program with your non-Jewish Friends and Family.All programs are FREE ON-DEMAND.Thanks to those who contributed to this filmASSOCIATED PRESS60 MINUTESTHE PRAGUE GUIDESART BEHIND WALLS - Director, Editor: Ryan von Kunes Newton, Director of Photography: Honza Suster, Producers: John Michalczyk, Josef (Pepi) Lustig, Narrator: Karen von KunesJEWISH MUSICAL INSTITUTE - THE MUSIC OF TEREZINTEREZIN MUSIC FOUNDATION: MUSIC - THE LAST BUTTERFLYHEGA VISOVA - SURVIVORBARRY JOHNSON - INTERVIEWERHELGA SKINSKY - SURVIVORDIEDA KRAUTZ - SURVIVORHELA WEISBERGER - SURVIVOREVA GROSS - SURVIVORHANDE DRAEY - SURVIVORPAUL SANDFORD - SURVIVORLISA KLEINOVER - SURVIVORKARL BERMAN SURVIVORHELGA WEISSOVER-HOSKOVA SURVIVORZDENKA FANTLOVA - SURVIVORPARTISAN PICTURES - Written & Directed by DOUG SHULTZ -Produced by PETER SCHNALL, DOUG SHULTZ - Editor MARK FASON - Music Director MURRY SIDLIN - Executive Producers WHITNEY JOHNSON, PETER SCHNALLMURRY SIDLIN - CONDUCTOR - DEFIANT REQUIEM AND CEO OF DEFIANT REQUIEM FOUNDATIONPAVEL FRIEDMAN - THE LAST BUTTERFLY - POEMCARA DE SILVA Z’L -IN MEMORY’S KITCHENBIANCA SENOVICH SURVIVOR - BAKERELLIE WIESELKOOLULAM MUSICAL PERFORMANCE - BRING THEM HOMEJOIN Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7Facebook/jewishcultureandshoahremembrance/theonerevolutionnnowWebsiteshttps://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join at top right buttonRecorded 6.28.2024All Rights ReservedDeportations from Theresienstadt, 1942-1944January 9, 1942–October 22, 1942The SS and police deport approximately 42,005 people, most of them Jews residing in the Protectorate, from Theresienstadt to killing sites, killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in the Baltic States, Belorussia, and the Generalgouvernement. 224 are known to have survived the Holocaust (one half of one per cent of those deported).January 20, 1942RSHA chief Heydrich announces the existence and propaganda purpose of Theresienstadt to officials of the SS, the Nazi Party, and the German state gathered to discuss the implementation of “Final Solution” policy—the annihilation of the European Jews—at the Wannsee Conference at a villa just outside Berlin.*Source: US Holocaust Museum
JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024 Israel/Palestine - Critical Thinking: A Historical ExplorationLearn more about the history of the Middle East from pre-1948 through the present. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website. Please subscribe to the channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. All programs are FREE ON-DEMAND. Thanks to our Special Guest Performers Richard Bass - Founder Of Critical ThinkersShirat Hayem - We BelieveJOINhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembrancehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/theonerevolutionnnowhttps://www.JCHRnow.circlee.so www.theonerevolution.comRecorded 6.28.2024All Rights Reserved
JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024 ASHES TO EARTH: Melodies from Auschwitz/Coming Home!Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website. Please subscribe to the channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. Join our Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembranceJoin THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/theonerevolutionnnowAnd our companion websitesJCHRnow.circle.cowww.theonerevolution.comAll programs are FREE ON-DEMAND. Thanks to our Special Guest Performers Olivia Dei ChicchiAndrian AnantawanPotnoy BrothersMickey CaulkerRabbi Cantor Angela BuckdahlCantor Azi SchwartzElana ArianLeonard Cohen The PartisanRabbi Deborah SetelUSC Shoah FoundationNatalie DessayAsh SolarRose Helene SpeiregenThe Bashevis SingersPS22 ChorusTheo BikelEden GolanThe Tree Of LifeThe Legacy of SchindlerOctober RainIdan AmeiFranchesco Latora Music Of The Holocaust - VideoMelodies of Auschwitz - VideoDebbie FriedmanYad VashemHazzan Eliyahu MaeakkoNur Ben ShalomTamir GrinbergShiri MaimonCantor Yakov LemmerCantor Nathan HertzelBe Light In The DarknessRaise Our VoiceAcapella Anthem of HopeBe A Beacon in the Darkest NightRecorded 6.17.2024All Rights Reserved
THE GREEN PRINCE: It's Chaos - JCHRnow.circle.so International Film Festival - On-Demand Summer Series - July 2024This film calls out Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Watch a very informative discussion with Douglas Murray and Mosab Yusef JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024 THE GREEN PRINCE: It's Chaos - JCHRnow.circle.so International Film Festival - On-Demand Summer Series - July 2024THE GREEN PRINCE FILM FOR RENT ON YOUTUBE. JUST SEARCH FOR THE GREEN PRINCECurated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website. Please subscribe to the channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. All programs are FREE ON-DEMAND. Thanks to our Special Guests and Performers Mosab Hassen Yusef - Nicknamed The Green PrinceDouglas Murray - Music Box FilmsYosef Gutman and his bandCantor Simon Cohen and The Israeli Orchestra - Bring Them HomeJOIN OUR COMMUNITY / jewishcultureandshoahremembrance / theonerevolutionnnow https://www.theonerevolution.comhttps://JCHRnow.circle.so Our companion website. Join at top right buttonRecorded 6.17.2024All Rights Reserved
THE GREEN PRINCE: It's Chaos - JCHRnow.circle.so International Film Festival - On-Demand Summer Series - July 2024JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024 THE GREEN PRINCE: It's Chaos - JCHRnow.circle.so International Film Festival - On-Demand Summer Series - July 2024Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE International Communities. JCHR10.7 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website. Please subscribe to the channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. All programs are FREE ON-DEMAND. Thanks to our Special Guests and Performers Mosab Hassen Yusef - Nicknamed The Green PrinceDouglas Murray - Music Box FilmsYosef Gutman and his bandCantor Simon Cohen and The Israeli Orchestra - Bring Them HomeRecorded 6.17.2024All Rights Reserved
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JCHRnow.circle.so and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STAND AGAINST HATE! Presents THE ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024 NAVIGATING EXTREMISM with Playing For Change GlobalCurated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of THE ONE REVOLUTION, JCHR 10 Facebook Community, and JCHRnow.circle. Our companion website. Please subscribe to the channel, comment, like, and share these educational programs widely with friends and family. All programs are FREE ON-DEMAND. SPECIAL THANKS TO:Ann Frank House - AmsterdamRuddy Rockman - Israel Political/Social ActivistRabbi Yossi Goldman, Rabbi Emeritus of the Sedan Ham Shul in Johannesburg, South Africa Judish Learning Institute - JLISurvivor Dr. Martha GoldblattMarch of the Living and Playing For Change Organization - Global Yidat MC - Social Activist - Israel Rabbi Doctor Sheryl K USATechnologist - Eric Dickstein - USAAish.comRecorded 6.6.2024 All Rights Reserved
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community (JCHR107) and JCHRnow.circle.so website ON-DEMAND SUMMER SERIES 2024Presents: Shalom Debbie Friedman... The Proteges...Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of JCHR107 Recorded 5.28.2024. For Further Information or for those interested in participating on an upcoming ON-DEMAND program using their creative arts, please contact Jeffery Giesener Jeffgthebaker@gmail.comPlease subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Media Channel and share this video widely with all your friends and family. Thank You. Check out the companion website JCHRnow.circle.so Everything Jewish...Every Day!Shalom Debbie Friedman... The Proteges SPECIAL THANKS TO:Elana Jagoda KayeDebbie Friedman92YCantors Azi Schwartz & Mira DavisBat EllaNatasha HirschhornJacob Ben-ZionRabbi Daroah SetelMayta Cohen Isaac Akers Sziszi HitesAggie Williams - Grant Heineman - Or OrenRabbi Daniel FreelanderBeth SchaferJosh NelsonJulie Silver Bud MitshkinDanny GoldRick RechtPeter YarrowRabbi Elliott KleinmanRabbi Eric YoffieAnn CopperJeff BrodyMilken ArchiveAdam Blotner Harley Magsino Andrew Miller Shari Ressel Rabbi Martin LawsonMyrna CohenRabbi Peter Rubinstein, Cantor Jeff Klepper, Merri Rabbi Ramie Arian, Douglas Mishkin Elana Arian, Peri Smilow, Zamir Choral FoundationJAll Rights Reserved
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The Together Plan UK non-profit with Co-Founder Debra Brunner presents ‘Restoring the Brest-Litovsk Jewish Cemetery’ followed by the feature-length Holocaust film “Aftermath" presented in conjunction with the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance/10.7 International Film Festival - On-Demand. THE TOGETHER PLAN HELPS COMMUNITIES HELP THEMSELVESTHE HOLOCAUST FILM "THE AFTERMATH" with English subtitles. Welcome to the JCHRnow.circle.so Summer On-Demand Program Series Volume 1. Please subscribe to the JCHR107 YouTube Media Channel and Share This Video Widely, ThganksThe Together Plan trains communities and their leaders to conceive, plan, and run activities & and events, pass on their skills to others, and work to preserve the past. The past is the key to understanding the present and planning for the future. The charity’s heritage work uses our shared history to unite and engage community members. Projects include recovering lost Jewish headstones, as in the current project in Brest, in the south of Belarus, and translating and publishing in English never-before-seen memoirs written by survivors of the Minsk Ghetto.The Together Plan also provides for the present through their aid and mutual assistance project - Aid Together, where they collect, sort, and send clothes, shoes, toys, stationery, computers, educational resources, and Judaica to needy communities. With the help of their dedicated team of volunteers, The Together Plan’s project is unique in transforming a culture of dependency into one of community volunteering and engagement. The Together Plan transcends borders and builds close relationships with the communities where they work to understand their unique needs and help them connect with like-minded individuals and organizations worldwide. By overcoming their isolation, communities and their members rebuild trust, develop friendships, and benefit from diverse support and expertise. We encourage members to put their new skills into practice as volunteers in orphanages, shelters, and wider society.The charity turns survival into revival. After the devastation of the Holocaust and the 50 subsequent years of communism, The Together Plan is helping to support Jews in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who are yearning to re-discover Jewish life. Reconnecting with a shared identity and heritage unites, empowers, and offers direction to communities and their leaders. This has led to The Together Plan’s initiative to create community dialogue around heritage and identity and is the foundation of an exciting program in partnership with AEPJ Jewish Heritage.The Together Plan has a partner non-profit in the USA Jewish Tapestry Project.www.thetogetherplan.comwww.jewishtapestryproject.orgThe Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance/10.7 International Film Festival May 2024 On-Demand Founder Recorded May 2024.Check out the following websites and Facebook Communities.www.JCHRnow.circle.sohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/jewishcultureandshoahremembrancehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/theonerevolutionnnow
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THE ONE REVOLUTION: STOP ANTI-JEWISH HATE
With Lio Spiegler and Seth Breitman from Jew Functionwww.theonerevolution.comwww.JCHRnow.circle.so companion websiteMembership Application link below. Please feel free to invite your friends family, to our International Community / jewishcultureandshoahremembrance / theonerevolutionnnow Join Rabbi Doctor Sheryl K, and Yifat MC, in coordination with their colleagues Lio Spiegler and Seth Breitman of the Podcast Jew Function, directly address and provide Previously Un-discovered Solutions to the currentSURGE IN JEWISH HATE! Find Out..."Why is Jewish hatred on the rise?" "Why the world doesn't justify us?" "Why never again has become 'yet again?'""What is the true meaning of Tikkun Olam?"Participate personally in new methods to push back against Antisemitism along with long-needed "out of the box" educational tools to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and #neveragain #neverisnow. WE ARE ONE!Program Recorded 5.15.2024Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of JCHRnow.circle.so JCHR107 and THE ONE REVOLUTION: STOP ANTI-JEWISH HATE
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Holocaust Tapestry Through Art2024 Yom HaShoah Program Series - Part 2 - April 21, 2024Holocaust Tapestry Through Art serves as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a tribute to those whose lives were forever altered by the atrocities of the Holocaust. By honoring the past through artistic expression, participants are inspired to confront injustice, promote understanding, and work towards a more compassionate and inclusive world for future generations. Presenters:Holocaust Survivor Jacqueline Simcha GmachHOLOCAUST ART TAPESTRY Jacqueline is a Tunisian-born, Sorbonne-trained American educator. Her work focuses on Jewish culture, Sephardic history, and preserving the artistic achievements of people victimized by the Holocaust.Holocaust/Jewish Culture Poet - Lindsay Soberano-WilsonHOLOCAUST EDUCATION: THE POWER OF NAMES AND TESTIMONYLindsay Soberano-Wilson explores her relationship to her culture, Jewish tradition, the Holocaust, and her Canadian homeland. while reflecting on how she internalizes terrorism and antisemitism.Holocaust Art Storyteller - Miriam Friedman MorrisMY NAME IS HILDEGARD TAUSSIG AND I AM A JEW! "In the face of the SS man, she was able to save the life of her father in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz without fear. She was a real hero." (David Friedman)Plus, Video Musical GuestsProduced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance/10.7 and THE ONE REVOLUTION - Stop Jewish Hate Communities
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STANDING IN YOUR OWN LIGHT - 2024 Yom HaShoah Program 3 Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community JCHRnow.circle.soWhether seeking a deeper connection with oneself and others, "Standing in Your Own Light" offers valuable reflections to support one's journey towards higher levels of one's being.Author Presenters: Abe Gurko - "Won't Be Silent"Heather Dune Macadam - "The Film 999"Janet Horvath - "The Cello Still Sings"Plus Yom HaShoah and 10.7 Memorial Videoand Video Musical GuestsPlease feel free to share this program widely with your friends and family. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder Recorded April 28, 2024
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Keep The Light ShiningJCHRnow.circle.so 2024 Yom HaShoah 3-Part Program Series - Part 1Inspirational stories of resilience and triumph serve as beacons of hope, offering participants a sense of connection and solidarity in their journey toward healing and renewal. Guest Presenters share their wisdom and insights, offering perspectives on resilience, purpose, and the transformative power of hope.With Presenters...Ana Fodorova - In The BloodMichael Ruskin - The VowLouise Fein - Daughter Of The Reich and The Hidden Childand Video Musical Guests.Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.circle.so International CommunityRecorded April 7, 2024
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THE ONE REVOLUTION STORY...IS YOUR STORY Overcoming Hate-Navigating Unity-Embracing Kindness- We Are One. Remembering The Holocaust, 10.7 #neverisnow #weareoneTHE ONE REVOLUTION Brainstorming Begins… ON LIVE ZOOMHi Revolutionist, Jeffery G. Founder of JCHR10.7 and JCHRnow.circle.so along with Co-Founders Rabbi Dr. Sheryl and Yifat CM. will share work ongoing since our January 2024 ZOOM meeting. It’s Time For… THE ONE REVOLUTION. WHAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT...· Presentation and Discussion THE ONE REVOLUTION MISSION· Sharing of current Work-In-Process “Fast Digital Prototypes” · Discussion and Questions regarding Digital Prototypes · Continued Development of BEHAG (Bold, Extreme, Hairy, Audacious Goals and nothing is off the table) ideas and concepts Each focuses on pushing back against Hate-Genocide- Antisemitism-Bullying. Remembering – The Holocaust, 10.7 #neverisnow.· Expanding Our CommunityFounder - Jeffery Giesener - Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Community and THE ONE REVOLUTION Community Co-Founder - Rabbi Doctor Sheryl and Yifat CM Join THE ONE REVOLUTION FACEBOOK GROUP / theonerevolutionnnow The JCHR10.7/THE ONE REVOLUTION WEBSITEJCHRnow.circle.soorwww.theonerevolution.com Recorded April 3rd, 2024 on ZOOM
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HI, JEFFERY GIESENER - FOUNDER OF THE JEWISH CULTURE AND HOLOCAUST/10 7 REMEMBRANCE and THE ONE REVOLUTION COMMUNITIES ON JCHRNOW.circle.so and JCHR107 FACEBOOK. - February 2024JOIN US for our next THE ONE REVOLUTION Brainstorming Live ZOOM EVENT on April 3rd at 12 noon ET, 9 AM PT and 7 PM Israel Time. Check the time in your area. RSVP Invite along with recording https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis...Let me share that I am working on curating and producing a series of programs for the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance International Community (now over 20,000 annual users) in the Fall of 2024 and continuing through 2025.The series title is It’s Time For... THE ONE REVOLUTIONOver the last several months, I have been doing my research and due diligence on this topic looking at the issues from many perspectives and political angles.The idea is to eventually build a new innovative digital platform designed for the world's youth to learn Not To Hate or Bully. or Deny Genocide. As you can see the idea is to go bigger than just Jew Hatred.To me, this is already a non-starter. We need to crack the brains of our youth K5 through college age and approach the roots of hate differently and not make it religion-specific.We are looking for colleagues to help me bring this platform to fruition. I will build the platform from the digital infrastructure I have built for our Community over the last three years. This includes JCHRnow.com which I own and manage the technology build. No Big Brother denies us what we can do as Facebook does.I have a team of 3rd party developers who are experts in community-based digital solutions. I will be funding this development personally.NOW WE ARE LOOKING TO FORM A LARGER TEAM OF THOSE ALIGNED WITH MY THINKING FROM ACROSS MY INTERNATIONAL NETWORK AND TIE INTO WHAT JIM COLLINS IN HIS WRITING GOOD TO GREAT CALLED BEHAG IDEAS. BIG EXTREME HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS. ESSENTIALLY ONLYBIG IDEAS.The idea here is not to spend time on the why’s or how's of how we got here with Antisemitism or who is to blame etc. but to come up with NEW INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS that will push back on the scaling international growth of Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, so our children have an alternative to what the propaganda machine has been shouting at them and their absorption for the last twenty-five years.And I would be honored if you would like to be part of a virtual team sharing ideas in this regard. As I said, there will be no ask for money other than your time spent thinking and sharing ideas, which is incredibly valuable to me. To Register for the THE ONE REVOLUTION Brainstorming ZOOM EVENT - Click Herebit.ly/3v3nI77For questions email: jeffgthebaker@gmail.comHugs,Jeffery
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Only Hope : Better Tomorrows Feb 18, 2024Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community JCHRnow.circle.soWe welcome Esther Gilbert, wife of the late Sir Martin Gilbert (world-renowned Holocaust Historian) for her third annual presentation to the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Community. Esther will present Where Jewish History and Geography Collide with two of Sir Martin's well-known atlases, the Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust, with a Foreword by David Patterson, and the Jewish History Atlas, which has a Foreword by the late former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, both atlases newly updated by Esther.The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust has Sir Martin's text and new maps of deportation routes, camp layouts, and former ghetto towns. These will be helpful for those who travel to these areas or study them at home or in school.The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History: Travel through Jewish history - this atlas has been completely redesigned including maps of former and historic Jewish communities in Arab and Muslim lands and in the former Soviet Union.Presenting with Esther are Jo Sorochinsky and Jes Heppler Jo Sorochinsky author of “Dancing With My Father” Does a child have the right to know a parent’s history? Does the key to one’s identity lie within that history? Raised as a Catholic in Ireland and Canada, the author of Dancing With My Father thought so as she probed her father’s past, at a loss to understand why he spent so much of his life hiding and fearing it. After all, he painted his early years in Vienna as filled with light and music. Decades passed before he would talk about the dark side that he had left behind in Vienna, when he fled alone, as a teenager, to Ireland in 1939. Though he finally broke open the secrets of his history, was he ever able to see himself in the enormity of those times and forgive himself?Jes Heppler - On the Path to Portuguese Citizenship, I Uncovered My Sephardic HistoryWhen Portugal announced it would end the opportunity for Sephardic naturalization, I dropped everything to trace back nine generations of my family.Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community Recorded Feb 18, 2024Raw Chat Text see https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/holocaust..
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Soundscapes of Serenity: Music for Inner HealingTrauma Support Havurah - JCHR107 & JCHRnow.circle.sowith music from Zola Shuman, Judith Tellerman, Jacqueline, and Yael Gmach and repeat performance by Peter Yarrow co-producer with Jaqueline Shima Gmach of We Are The Tree Of Life - Carry On. Jews have cherished music for centuries. For some, music acts as an escape from pain or can evoke deep feelings of joy. Others see music as a necessity, something that helps them understand difficult feelings and allows them the ability to express themselves. Regardless of how music makes us feel, it is something that we are all affected by. As a result, music can be used as a therapeutic technique to help us process challenging, traumatic, or even joyful experiences.Feb 7, 2024 Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder JCHRnow.com and JCHR107 Communities
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JCHRnow.com International Film Festival - Peter Yarrow highlights... "We Are The Tree Of Life- CARRY ON" with Jacqueline Shema Gmach - ProducerRecorded Wednesday, Jan 10th. Peter Yarrow highlights...“We are the Tree of Life - Carry On,” with Producer Jacqueline Shema Gmach and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary will present a feature-length film focusing on Holocaust education utilizing the arts to promote a message of hope and survival. Literature, music, dance, poetry, and drawings created by prisoners in the concentration camps and ghettos during World War II, show that beauty can survive, even when experiencing unspeakable horrors.Producer Jacqueline Shema Gamach and friends will join the Film Event including Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary who will sing for us.Jackie adds, “The Film demonstrates that all of us can overcome and that the human spirit is irrepressible.”Some of the prisoners of the camps and ghettos found their humanity and self-worth in the arts, dancing secretly at night, drawing or painting pictures, and playing music, Gmach told the Chronicle.“Their talents, their works, are today a message of survival, hope and resiliency,” she said. In small and quiet moments, prisoners of the Third Reich clung to the joy of “creating” so that their spirits could stay alive, she said.In her mission to combat hate and spread hope and love through the arts, Gmach stresses the importance of educating young people about crimes against humanity. As founder and creative director of We are the Tree of Life - Carry On, she urges educators to promote “acceptance” rather than just “tolerance.”Program Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance International Community. The Community as of Jan 2024 has over 20,000 annual users. Program Recorded: Jan 10, 2024
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Food, Hope & Resilience with author June Hersh & Obligation Of Memory Series for JCHRnow.com - 12.17.2023June's book includes a vital collection of survivor stories uplifts and inspires alongside recipes that nourish your soul. Read about daring partisans who fought in the woods, hidden children who sought comfort from strangers, and those who endured unimaginable internment. For Holocaust survivors, food was a way to connect their lives before the war with the homes they created after. Their kitchens were filled with the aromas of familiar foods like chicken soup and brisket while unfamiliar delights they adopted, like arroz con pollo and gnocchi, became part of their repertoire. These are the recipes they share with you. Culinary icons such as Michael Solomonov, Jonathan Waxman, Ina Garten, and more contribute their recipes as a tribute to the remarkable survivor community. Author June Hersh gives readers a taste of history and a life-affirming message that honors the legacy of Holocaust survivors.A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will benefit organizations committed to Holocaust education.Part 2: A collaborative Obligations of Memory Interview with June and the audience. Moderator and Interviewer: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook GroupCo-Host - Rosa Borg - from Malta
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Using Creative Arts For Coping with Trauma. JCHR Trauma Support Group Havurah 12.7.2023 for Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Facebook Community and JCHRnow.comPresenters and Demonstrations... Rabbi Sheryl Kamen - Let's Get Dancing" Mark Newhouse - "Creative Written Expression" Ruth Lindemann - "To Survive Is Not Enough"Dr. Debra Borys - "Sculpting for Wellness"Jackie Gmach - Musical Expression "We Are The Tree Of Life"Eva Moreimi - "Baking Memories of Mom" (OBM)Moderator - Jeffery Giesener - Founder of Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and JCHRnow.comCo-Host - Rosa Borg
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCRHnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group presents "Food Memories and Their Connections & "Speaking Yiddish To Chickens"A Delightfully Warm and Fun Program For Times Like These..."Food Memories and Their Connection To Love Ones" with Dr. Dana ShragerIntermission: "The Kindness of Magic" a Short Talk - by Werner Reich"Speaking Yiddish to Chickens"with Dr. Judith Tellerman & Dr. Sol Pinczweski & Freddi PakierModerator and Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Jeffery Giesener Rosa Borg - Co-HostChat Text file is presented at https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/media-cha...Presented November 19th 2023.
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The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group presents...Trauma Support Group HavurahA Rabbis Forum a discussion about the War in Israel and the Shoah with Audience ParticipationRabbi Bernhard Rosenberg (New Jersey), Rabbi Francis Nataf (Israel), Rabbi Jerry Kowalski (NYC), and Rabbi Sheryl Kamen (Texas).Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group. Program produced 11.7.2023
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group / jewis. . presents the third annual Into The Light 3.0: Managing Intergenerational Survivor Trauma withModerated by Dr. Dana Shrager with panelists Dr. Lynne Meyer and Rena Lipiner Katz - MSWMusical Guest Live From Italy Angela AmatoAudience Discussion and Q&A. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHR and Dr. Dana ShragerChat copy of Text ChatSee https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/media-cha...Please feel free to share the video link Into The Light 3.0: Managing Intergenerational Survivor TraumaPlease share this program broadly with your family, friends, and community. We all know the information and discussions contained in this video will be helpful for those of us in need of healing.withModerated by Dr. Dana Shrager with panelists Dr. Lynne Meyer and Rena Lipiner Katz - MSWMusical Guest Live From Italy Angela AmatoAudience Discussion and Q&A. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHR and Dr. Dana ShragerChat copy of Text ChatSee https://jchrnow.circle.so/c/media-cha...Please feel free to share the video link Into The Light 3.0: Managing Intergenerational Survivor TraumaPlease share this program broadly with your family, friends, and community. We all know the information and discussions contained in this video will be helpful for those of us in need of healing.
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The War In Israel...Memories, worries, and evoked Trauma. A discussion between Survivors, and 2/3G's 10.10. 2023With Physcolgists Dr. Dana Shrager and Dr. Lynne MeyerModerator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of JCHR Facebook Group and JCHRnow.comYesterday I got a call from a Survivor who desperately wanted to speak to me. She wanted to talk to me and share her trauma that we are heading for another Holocaust. The War In Israel has put her in a Depression Whirlpool brings back many of her Holocaust Triggers.IS THIS HAPPENING TO YOU AS WELL. ARE YOU A SURVIVOR? DO YOU NEED TO VOICE YOUR CONCERNS?PLEASE SHARE THIS WIDELY AND WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. WE ARE ALL ONE COMMUNITY.I am asking you all to join me in helping others in need of healing. Micheberachs to those lost, wounded, and for the future of the State Of Israel.
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JEWISH CULTURE AND HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE GROUP PRESENTS… “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE”Sunday, September 18th, 2022 WITHJACKIE GMACH - Holocaust SurvivSAMI STEIGMANN - Holocaust SurvivorJACKIE GMACH’S, “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE©,” is designed to share the important lessons of the Holocaust while emphasizing the role in which cultural expression was nurtured in the concentration camps and ghettos. Many victims survived by producing remarkable works of art, music, literature, and dance. These stories through “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE,” are now shared with the world. Born in Tunisia at the outbreak of WW2, Jackie is also one of the Project Directors for the Middle East/North Africa Collection of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Jacqueline has authored “From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds” and the upcoming novel, “The Antiphonary of Love: The Call of The Scroll.”I AM NOT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, I AM WHAT I CHOOSE TO BE!SAMI STEIGMANN has been many things. He has been a victim of the Holocaust. When he was liberated, he became a survivor. Now, he is a motivational speaker.Sami's experience is invaluable. Few people on this earth have gone through the atrocities he faced when he was just a child, and he was able to transform himself from a victim into a social action agent. Learn about Sami's story, and how he can help you.Musical Guest: JACKIE GMACHModerator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRNow.com and JCHR Group on Facebook
Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group presents...From Generation to Generation L'Dor V'Dor with musical introduction...Musical Intro - 10 minWith Authors: Joan Gluckauf Haahr Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany,In her recently published book, Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany, Joan Gluckauf Haahr realized her lifelong ambition to uncover the details behind the bare statistics in German archives and historical records about her German Jewish family, both those who perished and those who survived the Nazi regime. The daughter of German Jewish refugees, she inherited more than 1,500 letters and hundreds of photographs from her mother which — supplemented by more than twenty years of research — became the basis of this intimate study of what happened to her family and their world.Mirla RazThe Birds Sang EulogiesIn the mid-1990s Mirla Geclewicz Raz videotaped her parent's Holocaust experiences. Years later, their riveting stories were memorialized in the book The Birds Sang Eulogies: A Memoir. Daniel Geslewitz, nee Gedalia Geclewicz, survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and 6 subsequent concentration camps. Barely alive on May 2, 1945, he was liberated by American soldiers. Mirla's mother's survival trajectory began when Hitler broke his pact with Stalin. Anna Geslewitz, nee Charlota Gersten, survived the Lvov Ghetto. She obtained papers as a Catholic and fled to Germany where she worked as a maid in a German household. During the German retreat, she was forced to dig trenches for the retreating German army. Liberated in January 1945, she made her way back to Lvov. Refusing to stay in Poland, Anna moved to Luneburg, Germany where she met Daniel.Marilyn Price From Gratitude To Blessings and BackMarilyn travels around the United States teaching and telling both classic tales and stories of her own making. Her puppet characters are often made of every day and easily accessible objects that enhance not only the telling but the value of the story! Her clients range from libraries to schools to large museums, faith communities, and beyond! It is her thought that stories and visual objects will encourage the imagination and help with literary skills. Currently, Marilyn is a partner at TriBraining Inc. a not-for-profit organization that emphasizes teaching educators of all sorts how to reach all different genres of learners. With a specialty in creativity training and listening she uses humor and personal interaction to reach out and teach. Her latest book FROM GRATITUDE TO BLESSINGS AND BACK was published using Jewish blessings and stories with Rabbi David Teutsch and is available from Amazon as well as her other work. She has a weekly show on Facebook accounts The Mentor Project, TriBraining, and her own site. www.TriBraining.orWith Special Film Guest - Becky Tahel - "American Birthright"The program Moderator is Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and JCHR Facebook Group
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Abe and Miriam Mizliach are interviewed for the Obligations Of Memory L'Dor V'Dor Interview Series recorded 11.10.2022 Interviewer: Jeffery Giesener Recorded: 11.10.2022Abe and Miriam share common memories of their parent's childhood in Greece and Poland respectively. Both Abe and Miriam are Second Generation Survivors. The stories they share demonstrate the strength and resistance of their parents and their ability to not only survive but thrive in the United States. Abe and Miriam met each other in a 2G Shoah Group in CA and have been married for more than 30 years. They share stories of growing up in Survivors' homes and their relationships with their siblings. Both sets of parents found each other in German DP Camps and then came both came to America in 1950. Abe's story of how his mom met his dad is priceless. Another lovely and enjoyable Obligations of Memory L'Dor V'Dor interview with both Abe and Miriam as we bond over the fact that we are all second-generation survivors.
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Episode 3 for The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network L'Dor V'Dor Interview Series
Randi was raised in Beverly Hills, California, the youngest child of Holocaust survivors. My mother's greatest gift to me was her positive outlook in difficult and trying times —something that's helped me throughout my life.
After attending UC Santa Barbara, I received my BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and a Master of Science Management degree from Boston University. I was an Art Director in Los Angeles and Chicago, owned an art and frame Gallery in Israel, and worked in public relations before marrying and having a family.
Like Alix, the main character in my memoir, Beverly Hills Concentration Camp, I had a life altering experience. One day in 2008, while driving to visit my mother, I turned my head to the left and heard a noise in my head. I thought nothing more about it, until I woke up the next day unable to move. Doctors told me I'd never be able to use my left arm again unless I had surgery within a week to place metal disks in my neck. But something inside told me I was supposed to go in a different direction. The direction I chose — alternative healing — would forever change my life. My personal healing journey, working through all the layers of trauma and disappointment, taught me many tools I still use in my life today.
I began training as a healer and Shaman and discovered that healing others not only helped me heal but came naturally. I now believe I went through all that distress because I was meant to help others get through their own challenges. Today I continue to expand my skills as a Healer, while continuing to help others dive deep into extraordinary energy, joy and wellness.I live in Los Angeles with my husband and two children.
The interview was conducted on August 11, 2022 for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook/YouTube Video Channel /Spotify/Amazon/Apple/YouTube and Google Podcasts.
Episode 3
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and Facebook JCHR Group. Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder
Second Generation Survivor Rosette Ruttman from Toronto, Canada speaks about how her mother and her mother's 2 sisters were the first 1000 deportees transported to Auschwitz from Slovakia in May 1942.
This first transport is detailed in the book entitled 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam and Caroline Moorehead. available on Amazon.
The three sisters survived Auschwitz.
Rosette's father was forced by the Nazis in Poland to do heavy labor destroying and repairing roads in Poland. The Nazis needed to move their heavy guns and tanks traveling east through Poland. Rosette's father was an inmate in several concentration camps including Sachsenhousen concentration camp. We was liberated by the Russians in May 1945 and was sponsored by his aunt who was living already in London, Canada to come and live in the same town..
You will learn how Rosette's father met his bride to be and how each came to live in London Canada. The stories of how each of the family made their careers in their newly adopted country. And how Rosette was born 8 years after their marriage.
Rosette lovingly speaks about growing up in a very unique set of a two family home and living with what she describes as living with two sets of parents. She then leaves home to go to the University of Toronto, meeting her husband, eventually meeting Steve who is a dentist in Toronto. Wait and listen for a cute and funny story of how Rosette's family met Steve and how Rosette met Steve's parents.
Rosette also discusses the birth of her only daughter and the raising of their only child who is now getting her masters at the University of Toronto.
Rosette also shares with us some of her parents Holocaust traumas and how she inherited some of them. We collective discuss our Intergenerational Survivor Trauma and hear how Rosette's daughter shares in Intergenerational Survivor Trauma.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-integenerational-trauma-5211898
You'll enjoy listening to all of Rosette's three episodes as she shares intimate family memories contained in a series of wonderfully emotive discussions all recorded for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network in conjunction with the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube
Jeffery Giesener moderates and the recordings were made on 6.16.2022
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com presents
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: There Will Be Stories
Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
With Authors:
Robert Wolf - Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom
Not a Real Enemy is the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe takes hold of Hungary. From the Wolfs’ comfortable upper-class life to imprisonment, daring escapes, tragic deaths, cloak-and-dagger adventures, and Ervin’s final escape to freedom in the dead of night.
Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone’s character and strength…Hungary, 1944
Jenna Zark – Crooked Lines: A Single Mom's Jewish Journey
While trying to sort out the answer to this question along with the question of what being Jewish meant to her-Zark began writing. This book was born of the journey. Married to the cantor of a Jewish synagogue, trying to fit into a life she hadn't anticipated, Jenna is completely unprepared when her marriage falls apart. Now staring down the prospect of being a single mom, Jenna has to decide if and how to work with her former husband, now co-parent, to give her son a Jewish heritage. While the holidays and rituals in these pages are Jewish, the theme is universal and familiar to anyone who has ever experienced life-transforming loss. Crooked Lines is Jenna's honest and compelling story of navigating divorce, single parenthood, interfaith marriage, and losing parents while holding on to one's humor and traditions.
A Family’s Fight For Freedom Dr. Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz - Land of Many Bridges - My Fathers Story
Land of Many Bridges is a riveting novel that tells the true story of the Samuel family as they forge a path to survival, often separated but always together in spirit. The author honors her family’s struggle and imparts an important history about the Holocaust in Holland. Land of Many Bridges is told from the perspective of five family members,
Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz’s memoir recounts her family’s suffering during WWII, often reflecting on the long-lasting trauma and fissures caused by this event. From her two-year-old sister’s bleached hair, her parents’ immense feeling of survival guilt, and a daring escape from Camp Westerbork, the memoir spares no detail in sharing her family’s victories and failures.
As the threat of Nazi violence against the Jews of Overijssel grows, David Simon Samuel ties a knot in the corner of his huge red handkerchief to remind him of the “inner whisper” warning him against the danger of Hitler. This marks the beginning of the horrifying years endured by David and his family. A page-turning tale of suspense, tragedy, comedy, and ultimately, triumph.
Curated, Produced and Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group
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Blima Lorber's Obligations of Memory Interview
Blima Lorber is a Brazilian journalist, and daughter of Holocaust survivors David and Malka - both born in Chelm, Poland. David was one of the few survivors of what is probably the first Holocaust death march that happened on 1st December 1939, the Chelm/Hrubieszów Death March, and also survived the terrible conditions in Russian Gulags. Malka was a teenager when the Second World War started and also had to leave some of her family in order to survive in Russian Kolkhozes. Both had to cope with Stalin’s politics. Blima has a Master's in Jewish Culture as a Holocaust researcher her dissertation thesis is about an unknown subject: Brazilians in the Holocaust and in Resistance Against Nazi-Fascism, which will also be part of this series. She is also a researcher for Arqshoah – Archives of the Shoah -https://www.arqshoah.com/ and for Vozes do Holocausto – Holocaust Voices – a collection about survivors, partisans and rescuers who went to Brazil.
Interviewer is Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance. Recorded 8.25.2022
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group presents
"RAYS OF HOPE"
with authors: Jennifer Steil - Exile Music Keith Newhouse - My Tio's Pulse Blima Lorber - Jewish Partisans
Musical Guest Josh Nelson
Jennifer Steil’s Exile Music. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds, where they can escape the growing tensions around them.
But in 1938, Orly's peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first, and soon Orly, her father, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains, Orly's mother grows even more distant, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass, the war ends, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe--and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese--too strong to ignore?
Keith Newhouse’s My Tio’s Pulse. Often, in answers to simple questions, children deal with difficult and sensitive issues.
As parents, we need to have the tools that help us with these difficult topics and explain them in a way that children can understand without causing fear or anxiety.
Why are you crying, Tio Luis?
When Angel learned how to take his pulse in gym class, he never imagined the effect that his newfound knowledge would have on his Uncle Luis... or the conversations that it would start.
Using expert language from Psychotherapist Kenny Tello, who worked directly with children affected by Pulse and featuring illustrations by over 20 passionate artists, My Tio’s Pulse explains what happened at the Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016, clearly and simply will give children the tools to talk about difficult topics and empower them to feel safe.
Blima Lorber – The presentation is about Jewish Partisans in WW2. Estimates are that around 30 thousand Jews escaped from Nazi ghettos and camps to form or join organized resistance groups. They joined of non-Jewish groups that fought against the Nazis. However, some groups did not accept Jews into their ranks, so they had to hide this condition to be accepted in the units. This was an important factor in the creation of Jewish resistance groups.
After the war, several partisans came to Brazil, where most of them did not reveal their past as freedom fighters. Their legacies now come to light as their children, grandchildren, historians, and researchers recall their stories of courage and struggles, revealing that there was resistance on several fronts and that Jews did not passively surrender to their destruction. If they had to die, they would die fighting.
Recorded June 25th 2023.
Moderated by Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group Founder - Jeffery Giesener
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Obligations Of Memory Podcast
Iser Flaum author of "Under My Bubbe's Wing available on Amazon.com talks about why he wrote the stories contained in the book in an series of four episodes for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network.
Iser speaks through his father's voice which provides a true-life memoir of defiant endurance through cruelty and traumatic loss, leading to ultimate survival. The author presents his father’s ordeals during five and a half years of Nazi captivity during the Holocaust. Included is a section of his mother’s similar experiences, although limited by her difficulty in discussing this topic.
As the title infers, throughout his father David, perceives the aura of his late grandma’s spirit protecting him with her angelic wings, as vowed in an early vision. Besides the brutal forced labor, extreme hunger, and massive life upheaval, there are numerous near-death escapes. He consistently feels luck being steered his way. With this fortune, perseverance, and daring he ends up as the lone survivor of his large family. A similar outcome applies to the author’s mother.
Narrated from a first-person viewpoint it depicts forced migrations, Warsaw ghetto internment, and an ever worsening struggle to survive. Finally he must endure a series of Nazi camps for years until Russian liberation brings the war’s end. He becomes aware of the complete loss of family, being alone in the world in his early twenties. Finally free, DP camp life offers renewal, marriage, USA migration, and starting over.
During the interview Iser shares how he left his survivor home to get his Master's in Engineering from Duke University, how me his wife of over 45 years Joni and raised three children. Iser and Joni have 2 grandchildren.
Obligation Of Memory Podcast Interview conducted 7.25.2022 by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Facebook Group and the YouTube Video Channel.
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Episode 1
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group presents Yom HaShoah JCHRnow.com 2023 Series Part 3Tibor and Neomi Spitz are both Holocaust Survivors. The Spitz ‘s are Slovak-born artist and authors. After escaping from communist Czechoslovakia o the West, Tibor lived and worked in Canada and the US. They currently reside in Kingston, NY. Suppressed memories of his tragic childhood required an outlet only art could fully provide. The Communist country where he lived for two decades would not tolerate it, while political freedoms in the West fully supported his free artistic expression. Next to his scientific and technical profession Tibor Spitz became simultaneously an active artist as well. The unusually creative artistic environment in both Kingston and nearby Woodstock, NY gradually turned him into a professional artist. As his interest in art continued growing, besides painting he has been also sculpting, making ceramics, wood carvings, and wood burnings.Joining Tibor and Noemi is Poet Sarah Hawes-Hughes. Tibor is also featured in the PBS documentary entitled “Songs Of Survivors” which will featured To access the wonderful and beautifully emotive PBS Documentary "We Remember: Songs of Survivors" on paid Amazon Prime at https://amzn.to/42BXcx0 I know you will enjoy this amazing film and see Survivors from the Kingston NY, USA area and their survivor stories featured in new musical compositions. Jackie Gmach and Jeffery Giesener co-moderate the program. April 2023
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Stand Up To Jewish Hate: Professor Jeffrey Demsky, The Butterfly Project and The Paper Clip Project
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FROM THE DARKNESS OF THE SHOAH INTO THE LIGHTRecorded 7.17.2022LUCY ADLINGTONThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive within the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five, young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration was selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women. Drawing on diverse sources – including interviews with the last surviving seamstress – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Lucy Adlington is a British-based historian and writer with more than twenty years’ specialization in social history. BENJAMIN MIDLERA Life of A Child Survivor From Bialystok, PolandHolocaust Survivor of six concentration camps, Ben who turns 95 this June 27th will speak to us about his life, detailed in his fantastic book “A Life of A Child Survivor From Bialystok, Poland”. Ben lived, worked in Israel, and fought in the War of Independence in 1948. In Israel, Ben married Esther his wife of 71 years (Esther passed in 2022). Ben works diligently educating our children and other audiences on the lessons of the Holocaust and #NeverAgain. We are honored to have Ben presents his amazing story of living through the darkness of the Holocaust into the light of the many next phases of his life. When Ben speaks one feels the HOPE that drives his life every day! DAVID LEE PRESTONHonoring my mother and father July 15 marks 71 years since my parents Halina Wind Preston and George Preston were married in my uncle’s Connecticut synagogue in 1951. My talk honors two Jews who emerged from the depths of hell. One endured both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, then had a long career as an engineer with the Du Pont Co. The other hid for 14 months in the sewers of Lviv and was among the first survivors of the Nazis to speak publicly throughout the United States. They met in the U.S. in 1950. I was born five years later. During four decades as a journalist in Philadelphia, I've explored my parents' lives and other matters concerning the Holocaust. I wrote a trilogy of cover stories about my parents in The Philadelphia Inquirer's Sunday magazine, one of which made me a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. My work has exposed former Nazis in the U.S., including ethnic leaders in the Republican Party. I also have examined how a Swiss financier of fascism used Nazi funds to promote postwar Arab terrorism. My presentation will explore the ways in which my life and journalism career were molded by the marriage of my beloved parents. Musical Guest: Lenkta LichtenbergLenka Lichtenberg is a Canadian musician, composer, and producer who draws on the rich, intercultural Toronto soundscapes to create her own unique global sound. She has won the Canadian Folk Music and the International Independent Music Award Lenka’s latest project is ‘The Thieves of Dreams,’ based on poems she recently unearthed that were written by her grandmother while she was being held in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0nZDxUhG0Program moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube Video and recently launched Obligation Of Memory Podcast Network on Spotify/Apple/Amazon/Google/YouTube Podcasts, PODBean, Anchor and other podcast networks. If you would like to be considered for a interview please share your family story with me by emailing a short synopsis of the story to Jeffgthebaker@gmail.com
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Stories That Survive -- The Glassmakers Son and Heirs of AuschwitzJCHRnow.com The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group Live ZOOM Event Recording. Peter Kupfer author of The Glassmaker's Son and Dr. Jack Fried author of Heirs of Auschwitz: A True Story of the Holocaust, Transforming Inter-generational Trauma, and the Meaning of Existence. Musical Guest - Noah AaronsonSunday, December 11th, 2022The Glassmakers SonA blend of memoir and history, “The Glassmaker’s Son” by Peter Kupfer recounts the author’s decades-long quest to uncover the world his father left behind in Nazi Germany. Along the way he makes a series of surprising discoveries about his family, who were important players in the Bavarian glassmaking industry. After his grandfather was forced to sell the family villa, for instance, the Nazis turned it into their regional headquarters before it was destroyed by American artillery in the closing days of the war. In another twist, using a cache of old letters found in his parent's attic and other documents, Kupfer pieces together the details of his grandfather’s deportation and murder at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in western Czechoslovakia touted by the Gestapo as a “spa town” for distinguished Jews.At heart, “Glassmaker” is about a search for identity — the identity of the author’s soft-spoken, inscrutable father, and of the author himself.Heirs of AuschwitzYou can find countless stories of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as told firsthand by those souls that have witnessed, lived through, and survived indescribable horror. From great retellings from authors such as Elie Wiesel to dramatized, influential works of fiction from writers including John Boyne, it becomes clear the Holocaust has impacted more than the people that directly experienced it.Musical Guest: Noah AronsonModerated by Dr. Dana Shrager and Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.com
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group presents Hand Of Gold -- Roni Robbins, Dr. Mehak Burza and Abe Mazliach with Guest Musical Presenters: Floralove Katz and the Ottawa Klezmer BandYom HaShoah JCHRnow.com 2023 Program Series Part 2 -- April 16, 2023Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.com and Dr. Dana Shrager. Dr. Mehak Burza Holocaust education is neither mandatory nor prevalent in India. India represents a country that was neither directly affected nor involved with the Holocaust. As the timeline of the Holocaust overlaps the timeline of the struggle for freedom for the Indian subcontinent, the later events overshadow the former. Equating the partition of India with the Holocaust and tagging the Holocaust as one of the genocides, represents one of the few misconceptions about the Holocaust in India that often strips off the uniqueness of the catastrophic event. Dr. Burza will address the present status of Holocaust education in Indian schools and universities. She will also address the need of creating awareness regarding the Holocaust in India through relevant examples.Roni Robbins, Award-winning author-journalist Roni Robbins has been a published writer for 35 years. discusses how she kept family memories alive and preserved Jewish history and culture through her novel Hands of Gold. It's a heartwarming story about a fictional Sam Fox that began with cassette tapes he left his family. Sam came from nothing. A simple Jewish farmhand from Hungary, he spent most of his adult life running from danger, changing identities, skipping borders, harboring secrets, and fighting a devastating illness. The novel, based on an inspiring true story, offers an old-world take on several topics in the news today: A sometimes-fatal respiratory illness, life as an immigrant, and a mass shooting. Hands of Gold begins and ends with a remarkable secret and a past worth chronicling. Robbins shares how you can follow a similar path to document the meaningful contributions of those who helped shape your world and enrich the lives of others. Abe’ Mazliachs parents Leon and Lola survived the Holocaust and, after liberation, met and were married in the Feldafing, Germany Displaced persons camp. Abe shares their story.Music: Floralove Katz and the Ottawa Klezmer Band
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHrnow.com Group presents
Guri Stark -- ART AND THE HOLOCAUST: CAPTURING BEAUTY, BRUTALITY, HOPEA unique lecture on a topic that is not commonly discussed in the context of the Holocaust - the art of the Holocaust.Art is a powerful representation of the horrors, the hope, the anger, and the hopelessness experienced by Jews during and after the holocaust.Through personal stories of victims, survivors, and children artists, we will cover real examples of art created by them. We will observe and discuss how art has created a visual, long-living record of the Holocaust experienced. How it has been used as evidence for what really happened, how it helped children cope, and imagine a better world, and how it became a form of resistance by the artists.
Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group
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Holocaust Survivor Zelda Fuksman WE REMEMBER YOU presentation for The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group
Holocaust Survivor Zelda Fuksman speaks about how she came out of the Darkness of the Holocaust into the Light of the many next phases of her life. She also leaves us with a strong Yom HaShoah message. Interview with Jeffery Giesener Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook, JCHRnow.com, Spotify, Apple, Google, and YouTube.When Zelda educates children on the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah, men, women, and children she asks students can you write 2,000 names in a day on your blackboard? That's a lot of writing. Well, you would have to write 2,000 names for 8 1/2 years to reach the 6 million murdered in the Shoah. And I am speaking to 100 students here today. How many do you think of your fellow classmates here today would have survived? Please look to your right, then left and front and back. Do you know only 8 of you would have Survived the Holocaust? That's right only eight of you. This is why we must remember and why we must always teach the lessons of the Holocaust even when I am no longer here. You must continue to remember so Holocausts and Genocides will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group Presents... HOLOCAUST STORIES THAT SURVIVE.WITHDANIEL SEYMOUR/Manci Grunberger Beran and Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein—who survived Auschwitz TOMMY SCHNURMACHERFRANNIE SHERIDANDaniel Seymour/Manci Grunberger Beran and Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein—who survived Auschwitz TWO DISTINCTIVELY DIFFERENT TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL The personal stories of two sisters—Manci Grunberger Beran and Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein—who survived Auschwitz extend far beyond the Holocaust. Indeed, they have thrived in very different lives but only because of the personal bond that they have for one another: From Auschwitz with Love. Both sisters describe this bond in the memoir, diary materials, and “in their own voices” during this presentation. Additionally, Daniel Seymour will discuss the importance of how this passion project, and other projects like it, need to be part of our collective responsibility to Never Forget. Manci and Ruth will be joining Daniel for this presentation. Tommy SchnurmacherMAKEUP TIPS FROM AUSCHWITZ.: HOW VANITY SAVED MY MOTHER’S LIFEMakeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life details the foibles of his tumultuous relationship with his Holocaust survivor Mom who looked like Elizabeth Taylor and sounded like Zsa Zsa Gabor. The humorous presentation by this veteran radio broadcaster will answer several questions. How did his family escape from Hungary? How did Mom use her wits and her chutzpah to survive Auschwitz? What did she say to Robert Redford at the Academy Awards? Why did Omar Sharif invite her to his table and how on earth did she manage to charm a 6’4” Los Angeles cop? Frannie SheridanFROM TRAUMA TO NIRVANA Throughout her journey from TRAUMA to NIRVANA! Performer, Writer, and Cookie Eater Frannie Sheridan has been entertaining and educating audiences internationally for decades. Raised to believe that sharing the truth of her identity would get her killed, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Vienna and Germany, Frannie ultimately journeyed out of the dark wormhole of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) into PTJO (post-traumatic JOY!) Using truth-telling through performance as therapy-on-wheels, all the while collecting Mayoral Awards for her solo character shows THE WALTONSTEINS and CONFESSIONS OF A JEWISH SHIKSA Musical Guest: ALY HALBERTProgram Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook/YouTube Video/Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network. Program recorded live 8.14.2022 I am happy to announce the launch of our new JCHR YouTube Channel. All JCHR Programming is now recorded for On-Demand viewing. You can now subscribe and watch all of the programs On-Demand and I am thrilled to be able to provide this new JCHR Channel to everyone.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCks6pmLR13LIAQhs3pUznYA/videos All JCHR Programs are Absolutely Free and open to anyone. Please feel free to invite friends, family, and your communities to the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group with your friends, family, and community, please share this link to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/783384202591588If you have a family story about the Shoah that you would like to share on the NEWTHE OBLIGATIONS OF MEMORY Interview SeriesIs looking to share your story!Send an email of inquiry with a short background story to JeffGthebaker@gmail.com and request an interview.
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Yom HaShoah Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance 2023 JCHRnow.com Remembrance Through Art and Music - Part 1 of a 3 part series. March 19, 2023Zola Shuman shares the story and songs of her mother, her Uncle Leyb Rosenthal who wrote for the Ghetto Theatre productions and highlights the powerful spiritual resistance, life, strength, comfort, and hope the music gave to the inmates. Zola will also perform her original song “Hert Zich Tsu -We Will Remember You”, written as a tribute to all survivors, and their families lost and as a promise to all future generations. That We Are Still Here”. Robin E. Bernstein’s series of 18 artworks entitled Beauty and Terror responds and speaks to the Holocaust. The stories in the collection range from well-documented aspects to lesser-known crimes and stories of redemption. Each art piece has been created by pressing thousands of tiny cut pieces of colored string into wax. The artworks have been intentionally made to be beautiful: highly colored, freely shaped, obsessively crafted, carefully composed, and inviting to look at. The viewer is compelled to step close and on inspection can then absorb the stories. The surface texture and repetitive artistic process help to carry the content as well as respect and honor the victims of the Holocaust. These artworks have been made as acts of political resistance in a time of rising autocracy worldwide. They serve as warnings, memorials, and to educate viewers. This work uses visual art to push back against historical amnesia. Judith Tellerman’s songs pertaining to the Shoah are a compilation of archival pieces Judith has restored, preserved, and recorded together with the original songs she has composed. Judith’s music touches on the historical relevance and special relationship to her family Shoah history and her cousin, the martyr, Arthur Szmul Zygielbaum. Judith’s voice is beautiful and firmly grounded in Jewish tradition, and her songbook reflects those values musically beautifully.Ursula Duba's poems and essays read from her book "G E R M A N Y THE LEGACY OF BYSTANDERS, COWARDS, INFORMERS, DESKTOP MURDERERS, AND EXECUTIONERS". Essays read by Jeffery GiesenerProgram Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com
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MEANING OF LEGACY Guests Hank Greenspan, Miriam Friedmann Morris and Zola Shulman April 10, 2022 MEANING OF LEGACY first starts with LEARNING TOGETHER.
Going beyond testimony as usually understood. In learning together, testimony becomes the beginning of conversation rather than the end; declaration ("this I witnessed") becomes sustained exploration.
HENRY (HANK) GREENSPAN holds degrees from Harvard University (B.A, M.Ed.) and Brandeis University (Ph.D.) and held a Junior Fellowship of the Michigan Society of Fellows during which he did his doctoral research. He completed clinical internships (psychology) at the Brandeis Psychological Counseling Center and the University of Michigan Psychological Clinic. Greenspan is the author of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (now in its second and expanded edition) and, with Agi Rubin, Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated as well as numerous articles on survivors' retelling, including the chapter on survivors' accounts for the Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. He has been the annual Weinmann lecturer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (USHMM). In 2011, he co-led with Wendy Lower the annual Hess Seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses at the USHMM. In 2012, he was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal.
He received the 2020 article award from the Oral History Association for "The Humanities of Contingency: Interviewing and Teaching Beyond 'Testimony' with Holocaust Survivors." Most recently, he has been working with Sweden in helping plan the first Holocaust museum in that country. His award-winning play, REMNANTS, was originally produced for radio at WUOM-FM in 1991 and distributed to NPR and APR. Greenspan has since presented it as a one-person stage performance at more than 300 venues worldwide. More recent plays include "Done is Done," "Death / Play, or the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto," "The Stall," "The Spike," "The Perfect Game," "East Angels," "Boxes," "AmericaNirvana," "Arithmetic," "Gravediggers," and "The Aquarium."
HIs most recent play, "Gravediggers," is a short one-act set in the midst of the war in Ukraine. He is a lifetime member of the Dramatists Guild. Miriam Friedman Morris Miriam Friedman Morris is the daughter of Auschwitz survivors David and Hildegard Friedman(n). Art shaped her life. Fascination with her father’s Nazi-looted art launched a four-decade quest to find lost works and ensure his rightful place in history. Her pursuit launched a worldwide revival of an artist obscured by the Nazi regime. It even led to an episode “Holocaust Diary” on the Fox Business News show, Strange Inheritance. Morris, who lives in New York, facilitates exhibitions, lectures and writes — and is dedicated to the preservation of her father’s art legacy. She has co-written a book, traveled the world, is a recognized lecturer and author of several articles. A new Holocaust documentary, "Dear Miriam - The Art and Survival of David Friedmann", by Emmy Award Winner John Rokosny, is currently in production. Morris is currently writing a book about her father’s life through art: http://z.umn.edu/davidfriedmann. ZOLA Shuman Zola is a singer~songwriter, composer, performance coach, creative content consultant and performing artist. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Zola Shuman, a Billboard award winning composer, lived in Boston USA for over twenty years, debuting her jazz album "Here With You" at Scullers Jazz Club in 2007. She has released a number of original CD's for children and adults, written commissioned works for international fund-raising charity organizations and for film: Silver Hammer Studios ("The Dancing Pumpkin"- 2007) and Reel Action Productions ("Generation To Generation" -2020). Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remberance JCHRnow.com Group JCHR Yom HaShoah 2022 Program #2
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
A story about the past with powerful messages for the future – Holocaust Survivor Thomas Geves documented the past and became an active witness out of a wish and hope for this testimony to raise people's awareness of the true events of the past in detail, their effect on people and the way people coped with them, some surviving them against all odds.
Learning about the past has a value of its own, but learning from it, can teach us a lot about ourselves, about our present life.
Thomas' testimony carries his hope and wishes for people to learn from the past, live accordingly and create a better future.
Presented by Yifat Geves - Daughter of Thomas
Moderator Jeffery Giesener - Founder of JCHRnow.com
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Episode #1 for The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network For The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group.
ZOLA SHUMAN, born in Cape Town, South Africa, is the daughter of two Vilna-born Holocaust survivors, Israel Jutan and Yiddish actress and singer, Chayela Rosenthal.
ZOLA is a singer-songwriter, performance coach, and recording artist who has released a number of original music albums for both children and adults. She has written music for film, has performed on many stages in the USA and abroad, taught courses on the Holocaust, and has given keynote addresses at Yom Hashoah events. “
Zola asks if you like to reach her, she is available through Facebook Private Messenger and through www.ZOLA.us To read more about Zola's parents and Leyb please go to https://www.Chayela.Wordpress.Com
The interviewer is Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance. Recorded 8.29.2022
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CHRnow.com EVERYONE HAS A STORY
Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group presents...JCHRnow.com Presenters...
Jennifer Coburn is the author of “Cradles of the Reich”. “Cradles of the Reich” is a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Cradles of the Reich provides a cautionary tale for modern times told in stunning detail. The book also carries an uplifting reminder of the power of women to set aside differences and work together in solidarity in the face of oppression.
Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman is the author of “On Sunny Days We Sang”. When the Nazis march into de Gelman’s little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra, the author’s parents, it marks the beginning of a struggle to survive during which they will experience ghettos, roundups, hiding places, and false identities, a struggle where the line between life and death will depend on small decisions made along the way. With the story of the destruction of Polish Jewry as a backdrop, Jeannette tells us the remarkable tale of her parents’ journey, which will take them from the dark years in Europe at war to safety and a new life in Venezuela.
Musical Guests Songs of Protest - Baraye Thousands of women have gathered on the streets of Tehran to protest mandatory veiling and in support of equal rights and non-discrimination. Viewed in historical context, Iranian women have been leading a fight for justice for over 40 years, despite violent threats to their lives and livelihoods. We call out Human Rights Violations for Women in Iran In solidarity with the brave women and all protesters of Iran
Recorded 2.19.2023
Moderated by JCHRnow.com Founder -- Jeffery Giesener
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JCHRnow.com Havurah: Managing Intergenerational Survivor Trauma L'Dor V'Dor Obligations of Memory Series for the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance is moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.com
This is an exclusive, inclusive discussion session and NOT a Therapy Discussion Group. In fact, there will be no mental health professionals proving services or tools in this capacity.
The program is viewable on The JCHRnow.com YouTube Media Channel, The JCHRnow.com VIEWseum, Spotify, Apple, Google, and Podbean.
Program Goals and Features:
● Our hope is that this unique program will lead to a better understanding of Intergenerational Survivor Trauma and that the tools offered will help manage its effects.
● The program will include a fully interactive component where audience members will have the option to respond to prompts and thoughts from the moderator and other members of the Havurah. Remember this program will only work if everyone feels included and has comfort in sharing their own personals. We will start by getting to know one another with each audience member giving a piece of family history, how your parents came through the Darkness of the Shoah to lead successful lives, and a bit about your own realized trauma.
● We hope that by shedding light on inherited trauma, we will all feel less alone. As a community, we can work together toward healing the trauma and its aftermath.
Jumpstart question for this session...
What was it like to grow up in your Survivor parent's home? For more information on how you join the Havurah Group email jeffthebaker@gmail.com and ask to join and share why.
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JEWISH CULTURE AND HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE GROUP JCHRnow.com PRESENTS
WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE WITH JACKIE GMACH - Holocaust Survivor SAMI STEIGMANN - Holocaust Survivor
WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE JACKIE GMACH’S DocuSeries, “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE©,” is designed to share the important lessons of the Holocaust while emphasizing the role in which cultural expression was nurtured in the concentration camps and ghettos. Many victims survived by producing remarkable works of art, music, literature, and dance.
These stories through “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE,” are now shared with the world.
Born in Tunisia at the outbreak of WW2, Jackie is also one of the Project Directors for the Middle East/North Africa Collection of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Jacqueline has authored “From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds” and the upcoming novel, “The Antiphonary of Love: The Call of The Scroll.”
I AM NOT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, I AM WHAT I CHOOSE TO BE! SAMI STEIGMANN has been many things. He has been a victim of the Holocaust. When he was liberated, he became a survivor. Now, he is a motivational speaker. Sami's experience is invaluable.
Few people on this earth have gone through the atrocities he faced when he was just a child, and he was able to transform himself from a victim into a social action agent. Learn about Sami's story, and how he can help you.
Musical Guest: JACKIE GMACH
Moderator: JEFFERY GIESENER
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The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group present a ZOOM Live Event…October 23rd, 2022 Into The Light 2.0: Managing Intergenerational Survivor Trauma
The program is produced by Jeffery Giesener – Founder of the JCHR and Dr. Dana Shrager – Clinical Psychologist with expertise in Intergenerational Trauma. Dr. Dana will moderate along with Jeffery Giesener
Program Goals and Features:
● Our hope is that this unique program will lead to a better understanding of Intergenerational Survivor Trauma and that the tools offered will help manage its effects.
● The program will include an interactive component where audience members will have the option to respond to prompts from panelists and may share how the topic relates to them.
● We hope that by shedding light on inherited trauma, we will all feel less alone. As a community, we can work together toward healing the trauma and its aftermath.
Last year’s Into the Light program was one of our best-attended programs ever and received numerous requests for a repeat. The program was recorded on October 23rd, 2022 in front of a live ZOOM audience.
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L'Dor V'Dor From Generation To Generation
As antisemitism is on the rise, sharing stories about the Holocaust is more important than ever. Join us for an intimate conversation with Holocaust Survivors, their children, and adult grandchildren, as they share their stories of survival and family heritage. Guest Presenter Mark Newhouse - The Devils Bookeeper's Trilogy Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group JCHRnow.com This event will emphasize the importance of sharing our family stories and the legacy of hope, resilience, and strength of our parents.
This program will be recorded and streamed on demand. Please bring other family members including an Adult 3G (if applicable) with you to this event as each family Group will be given time to share their family stories of Survival and Legacy -- L'Dor V'Dor From Generation To Generation. Jeffery Giesener Founder will moderate the sessions. Each of us has a story to share about beautiful memories of our parents. Join us for another unique JCHRnow.com storytelling program where each member can share a special memory and or keepsake of one's parent.
Please bring along your own Keepsake to share on the screen
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Jenna Zark from the Twin Cities of Minnesota is joined for the Obligations of Memory Interview by her cousins Dina and Brian Fine from Long Island
When you part company with the life you’ve been living and have to start a new one, what do you do? Jenna Zark didn’t expect to be divorced. She didn’t expect to be a single mom—but when her son was three, that's exactly what happened. After moving from New York to the Twin Cities because of her former husband's job as a cantor at a synagogue, she knew very few people outside the synagogue. The idea of starting over was terrifying. And yet, and yet. There is a saying that God paints crooked lines when leading us to the people we were meant to meet. This book was born of the journey.
Crooked Lines: A Single Mom’s Jewish Journey was written for people of all faiths (or none) Navigating divorce, single parenthood, interfaith marriage and losing parents Or if you’re going through these transitions and just need to know someone else has been through it Crooked Lines: A Single Mom's Jewish Journey is published by Koehler Book and is available on Amazon. Jenna Zark is an award-winning author and playwright. Her columns for TC Jewfolk were the basis for Crooked Lines and frequently went viral at sites around the country. Zark is also the author of two middle-grade books, The Beat on Ruby’s Street and Fool’s Errand, released by Dragon Moon
Both books achieved a top-50 ranking in Amazon’s Children and Historical Fiction category several times. The Beat on Ruby’s Street won first prize from Wishing Shelf awards in the UK and was a finalist for the Minnesota Author’s Project. Zark was also a staff writer at Scholastic magazine. Her play A Body of Water was published by Dramatists Play Service, produced at Circle Repertory Company in New York, and chosen by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture as a play that "breaks new ground." She is also a lyricist and is still trying to figure out if it’s easier to write a play, book or song. If you want to weigh in on that, feel free to write via the contact page!
The interviewer is Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance. Recorded 9.9.2022
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Stories That Survive -- The Glassmakers Son and Heirs of Auschwitz JCHRnow.com The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group Live ZOOM Event Recording. Peter Kupfer author of The Glassmaker's Son and Dr. Jack Fried author of Heirs of Auschwitz: A True Story of the Holocaust, Transforming Inter-generational Trauma, and the Meaning of Existence. Musical Guest - Noah Aaronson Sunday, December 11th, 2022 The Glassmakers Son A blend of memoir and history, “The Glassmaker’s Son” by Peter Kupfer recounts the author’s decades-long quest to uncover the world his father left behind in Nazi Germany. Along the way he makes a series of surprising discoveries about his family, who were important players in the Bavarian glassmaking industry. After his grandfather was forced to sell the family villa, for instance, the Nazis turned it into their regional headquarters before it was destroyed by American artillery in the closing days of the war. In another twist, using a cache of old letters found in his parent's attic and other documents, Kupfer pieces together the details of his grandfather’s deportation and murder at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in western Czechoslovakia touted by the Gestapo as a “spa town” for distinguished Jews. At heart, “Glassmaker” is about a search for identity — the identity of the author’s soft-spoken, inscrutable father, and of the author himself. Heirs of Auschwitz You can find countless stories of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as told firsthand by those souls that have witnessed, lived through, and survived indescribable horror. From great retellings from authors such as Elie Wiesel to dramatized, influential works of fiction from writers including John Boyne, it becomes clear the Holocaust has impacted more than the people that directly experienced it. Musical Guest: Noah Aronson Moderated by Dr. Dana Shrager and Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.com
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JCHRnow.com Havurah - Managing Intergenerational Survivor Trauma -- Dec 14, 2022
Evening Session
Managing Intergenerational Survivor Trauma: Pilot
An intimate group of Survivors, Second and Third Generational Survivors discussing their personal challenges and how they are managing them. The Pilot was designed to make introductions and the beginning process of sharing openly. The Group had 7 audience participants and you do not need to be a member of the JCHRnow.com community.
The program was 1.5 hours and moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow.com
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Abe and Miriam Mizliach are interviewed for the Obligations Of Memory L'Dor V'Dor Interview Series r
Interviewer: Jeffery Giesener
Recorded: 11.10.2022
Abe and Miriam share common memories of their parent's childhood in Greece and Poland respectively. Both Abe and Miriam are Second Generation Survivors. The stories they share demonstrate the strength and resistance of their parents and their ability to not only survive but thrive in the United States. Abe and Miriam met each other in a 2G Shoah Group in CA and have been married for more than 30 years. They share stories of growing up in Survivors' homes and their relationships with their siblings. Both sets of parents found each other in German DP Camps and then came both came to America in 1950. Abe's story of how his mom met his dad is priceless. Another lovely and enjoyable Obligations of Memory L'Dor V'Dor interview with both Abe and Miriam as we bond over the fact that we are all second-generation survivors.
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Obligations Of Memory Interview Series with Peter Kupfer author of The Glassmaker's Son “The Glassmaker’s Son” is a blend of memoir and family history that tells the story of my father, Robert Kupfer, the son of a Jewish industrialist who fled Nazi Germany in 1937, through the eyes of a gay son who yearned to get closer to him and unlock the secrets of his past.
Soft-spoken and inscrutable, with a guttural accent and a mischievous sense of humor, my father rarely spoke about his life in Germany before the war. It was only after he died in 1976, through the discovery of a cache of old letters and a series of visits to his hometown in Bavaria, that I learned the scope of his family’s glassmaking business (more than 20 factories in three countries) and the details of his desperate, ultimately unsuccessful effort to save his father from the Nazi genocide. The book traces my father’s life growing up in the Oberpfalz in northeast Bavaria, fleeing to the United States, marrying into a family of strong-willed Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, and building a successful business making women’s clothing.
It also explores my own life growing up in a middle-class Jewish home in Connecticut, coming to terms with my sexuality, and yearning to get closer to Dad and learn more about the glamorous life he once lived. Using historical documents and family anecdotes, “Glassmaker" pieces together the details of my grandfather Otto’s deportation and murder at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp touted by the Gestapo as a “spa town” for distinguished Jews. It also recounts a series of surprising discoveries I made in Dad's hometown. After my grandfather was forced to sell the family villa, for instance, the Nazis turned the house into their regional headquarters; it was destroyed by American artillery in the closing days of the war. In another surprising twist, shortly after my first visit to Weiden, I received a letter from my grandfather’s former housekeeper informing me that he had entrusted her with a pair of oil portraits of my great grandparents, which she had been “guarding” ever since, hoping to return them one day to a member of my family.
The process of recovering them, as I recount, was a long and convoluted one. At its heart, Glassmaker is about a search for identity — both my father's and my own. It will appeal to readers interested in Jewish history and culture, in the Holocaust, in gay themes, and more broadly in family life and personal history. About Peter Kupfer: I am a veteran journalist with experience writing and editing stories about business, technology, culture and other subjects for major newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer and Metropolis magazine. I was an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for many years. Peter can be reached at peter.kupfer@gmail.com
Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance was the interview for the Obligations of Memory Podcast Network. Recorded 4.6.2022
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Rosette Ruttman second-generation Holocaust Survivor is interviewed for the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group Obligation Of Memory Interview Series.
Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow is the interviewer.
Rosette Ruttman from Toronto, Canada speaks about how her mother and her mother's 2 sisters were the first 1000 deportees transported to Auschwitz from Slovakia in May 1942. This first transport is detailed in the book entitled 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam and Caroline Moorehead. available on Amazon.
The three sisters survived Auschwitz. Rosette's father was forced by the Nazis in Poland to do heavy labor destroying and repairing roads in Poland. The Nazis needed to move their heavy guns and tanks traveling east through Poland. Rosette's father was an inmate in several concentration camps including Sachsenhousen concentration camp. We was liberated by the Russians in May 1945 and was sponsored by his aunt who was living already in London, Canada to come and live in the same town.
You will learn how Rosette's father met his bride to be and how each came to live in London Canada. The stories of how each of the family made their careers in their newly adopted country. And how Rosette was born 8 years after their marriage. Rosette lovingly speaks about growing up in a very unique set of a two family home and living with what she describes as living with two sets of parents. She then leaves home to go to the University of Toronto, meeting her husband, eventually meeting Steve who is a dentist in Toronto.
Wait and listen for a cute and funny story of how Rosette's family met Steve and how Rosette met Steve's parents. Rosette also discusses the birth of her only daughter and the raising of their only child who is now getting her masters at the University of Toronto. Rosette also shares with us some of her parents Holocaust traumas and how she inherited some of them.
We collective discuss our Intergenerational Survivor Trauma and hear how Rosette's daughter shares in Intergenerational Survivor Trauma. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-... You'll enjoy listening to all of Rosette's three episodes as she shares intimate family memories contained in a series of wonderfully emotive discussions all recorded for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network in conjunction with the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube
Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group moderates. Recording was made on 6.16.2022
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A HOLOCAUST MEMOIR OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE" Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America. A terrific read from author Dr. Ettie Zilber available on Amazon.
Ettie Zilber presents her book and story for the JCHRnow Obligations Of Memory Interview Series. Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHRnow is the Interviewer.
Dr. Ettie Zilber parents who both were Holocaust survivors. Mom survived Stutthof Concentration Camp and her father hid and was liberated by the Russians in 1941. The family spent 4 years in a Deportation Camp in Germany. Ettie was born in a displaced persons camp in 1949 and the family in 1950 immigrated to Brooklyn, NY USA. She grew up with her two younger sisters and was educated in New York City and got 2 master degrees at Penn State in Pennsylvania, USA. Ettie then immigrated to Israel and received her Doctorate in Cross-Cultural Childhood Learning. after After retiring from a career in education, Ettie then became Director of six International Schools covering six countries.
Ettie, currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona USA with her husband Jacob. She is a Board member for the Phoenix Holocaust Association and devotes much time to giving presentations to youth and adults worldwide. Ettie and Jacob have three children including a set of twins. They have 3 grandchildren.
A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America With the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), Zlata Santocki Sidrer life changed forever. Zlata was Jewish, but she survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Gone was her normal life and her teenage dream of becoming a doctor. Instead, she witnessed untold deprivations, massacres, imprisonment, hunger and slave labor before being transported to the Stutthof Concentration Camp. Her story of the death march is a testament to her fighting spirit and the limits of human endurance. Yet the challenges did not end with liberation.
Lovingly compiled from recorded interviews and researched by her eldest daughter, Ettie, this is an account of a remarkably resilient woman who raised herself out of the ashes after unimaginable hardship and sorrow. She found love and happiness where none could be expected—a secret marriage in the ghetto, escapes, dangerous border crossings, reunification, and life-saving friendships. Ettie’s quest to learn more about her ancestry led her to Lithuania and Poland–in her mother’s footsteps. The author reflects on the impact of her family’s experiences on her own beliefs and behaviors, thereby adding to the literature about Second Generation and transgenerational trauma. In these memoirs she honors her family by telling their amazing story of survival and collects evidence to corroborate their painful history.
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Second Generation Steven Russek Survivor speaks about his Survivor Parent's 1 2 Episodes 6 8 2022
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The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network L'Dor V'Dor Interview Series Randi Maggid was raised in Beverly Hills, California, the youngest child of Holocaust survivors.
My mother's greatest gift to me was her positive outlook in difficult and trying times —something that's helped me throughout my life. After attending UC Santa Barbara, I received my BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and a Master of Science Management degree from Boston University. I was an Art Director in Los Angeles and Chicago, owned an art and frame Gallery in Israel, and worked in public relations before marrying and having a family. Like Alix, the main character in my memoir, Beverly Hills Concentration Camp, I had a life altering experience. One day in 2008, while driving to visit my mother, I turned my head to the left and heard a noise in my head.
I thought nothing more about it, until I woke up the next day unable to move. Doctors told me I'd never be able to use my left arm again unless I had surgery within a week to place metal disks in my neck. But something inside told me I was supposed to go in a different direction.
The direction I chose — alternative healing — would forever change my life. My personal healing journey, working through all the layers of trauma and disappointment, taught me many tools I still use in my life today. I began training as a healer and Shaman and discovered that healing others not only helped me heal but came naturally. I now believe I went through all that distress because I was meant to help others get through their own challenges. Today I continue to expand my skills as a Healer, while continuing to help others dive deep into extraordinary energy, joy and wellness.I live in Los Angeles with my husband and two children. The interview was conducted on August 11, 2022 for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook/YouTube Video Channel /Spotify/Amazon/Apple/YouTube and Google Podcasts.
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Howard Kaplan is a native of Los Angeles and has lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Howard discusses his writing process, how he researches a novel, how to get published and where, and the subject matter for his newest book which he is just about to publish. At the age of 21, he was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London. His first trip was a success. On his second trip, he transferred a manuscript to the Dutch Ambassador inside his Moscow embassy. A week later, he was arrested in Khartiv in the Ukraine and interrogated for two days there and then two days in Moscow, before being expelled from the USSR. The KGB had picked him up for meeting dissidents and did not know about the manuscript transfers. He holds a BA in Middle East History from UC Berkeley and an MA in Philosophy of Education from UCLA. Howard shares his parents Survivor stories as well as his life growing up in their household. Howard who has authored seven books with his latest "To Destroy Jerusalem". He is most famous work is called "Damascus Cover" written in 1977 and made into a feature film of the same name 40 years later in 2017. The film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Hurt. This is part one of a two -part interview. 5-23-2022
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Howard Kaplan is a son of two Holocaust Survivors. His dad escaped Poland in 1938 and his mom was a Survivor of Auschwitz with 2 of her sisters. One sister was murdered at the camp. Howard is a native of Los Angeles and has lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt.At the age of 21, he was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London. His first trip was a success. On his second trip, he transferred a manuscript to the Dutch Ambassador inside his Moscow embassy. A week later, he was arrested in Khartiv in the Ukraine and interrogated for two days there and then two days in Moscow, before being expelled from the USSR. The KGB had picked him up for meeting dissidents and did not know about the manuscript transfers.
Interviewer Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance
Recorded 5.23.2022
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Dr. Elvira Groezinger was born in 1947 in Poland as a child of Holocaust survivors and Elvira grew up in Israel. Dr. Groezinger received a B. A. from the Hebrew University Jerusalem (English and French Literature, Jewish History, History of Arts). After moving from Israel to Germany in 1967 – Elvira received her Translators’ Diploma from the University of Heidelberg. She studied German Literature and Jewish Studies in Frankfurt on the Main.
Elvira received her Doctorate in General and Comparative Literature from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Elvira has worked as Lecturer in Literature and a Scientific Researcher at Universities and academic Institutes in Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Potsdam, and Berlin, now retired. As a long-time WIZO member, she was for many years on the boards in Frankfurt and Berlin, and on the German Presidential Board.
Dr. Grozinger is the author of 9 books, mainly on Jewish culture and literature. She has over 300 scholarly articles and reviews. Elvira Groezinger is married to Professor Emeritus of Religious and Jewish Studies, Karl E. Groezinger, affiliated Professor of the University of Haifa. They both have one married daughter who is a dermatologist. Her daughter also married second-generation survivors and they have two children. They also live in Berlin.
The interview was conducted on August 3, 2022 for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook/YouTube Video Channel /Spotify/Amazon/Apple/YouTube and Google Podcasts.
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Obligations of Memory Interview - Eva Moreimi and her mother's Holocaust Hidden Recipes
Eva Moreimi a second generation Holocaust Survivor presents the amazing story of her book Hidden Recipes - A Holocaust Memoir about recipes collected and secretly written on the back of munition labels in the evenings at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Over 600 recipes on the back of Nazi ammunition labels have been now donated to the United States Holocaust Museum by Eva and her family.
Recorded on 9.14.2022 moderator was Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group.
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Survivor Sam Steigmann from NYC speaks about growing up, his time in Israel, coming to the US his family and his need to speak to students about the lessons of history and the reasons for the Holocaust.
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Episode 1 for The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network For The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group.
Dr. Dana Shrager Psychologist and Food Enthusiast talks about Jewish Cooking and details about her new website DanasTable.com
Dana is a 3rd Generation Holocaust Survivor. Dana founded and manages two terrific Facebook Groups Jewish Holiday Cooking and Jewish Cooking.
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Dana also recently launched her new website https://www.danastable.com where she has compiled and researched over 200 Jewish recipes from her Mother, Grandmother, friends, and members of her two cooking groups. Dana’s two Facebook Cooking Groups have over 25,000 members
You can find daily recipes and fun foodie conversations going on between tons of her audience. On today's Obligations Of Memory program, enjoy a memorable feast of information and a daily dish of fun conversation between two really good cooking and baking buddies.
Interviewer is Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance. Recorded 8.29.2022
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Yifat Cohen-Meir a Second-Generation Survivor speaks about growing up in a household of two Holocaust Survivors along with her two siblings. Yifat's father Thomas Cohen, also known as Thomas Geves spent 2-1/2 years in Auschwitz from 13 years of age to age 15. He was transferred to Buchenwald and was liberated there. He spent three years in the Buchenwald Displaced Persons Camp. He was seriously ill after being liberated in May 1945. Yifat and her father Thomas live in Israel. During his period of recovery in Switzerland, he decided to memorialize the difficult memories of Auschwitz and as a result, drew 80 personal drawings of what he experienced as a 13-year-old inmate at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Years later his drawings were then collected and published in an amazing book entitled "The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz". Thomas for the last 30 years has been educating around the world and lately now in Israel the lessons of the Holocaust using his art as the lesson plan. "The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz is available on Amazon.
Yifat now follows in her father's footsteps carrying on the teachings and lessons of the Holocaust and during COVID has been bringing his art, drawings, and #neveragain lessons to audiences worldwide. Yifat also shares her own personal life story growing up in a home of two Survivors, along with, sharing her own Intergenerational Survivor Traumas. Yifat is married for 30 years and has three children. I am delighted to bring Yifat to The Obligations of Memory Podcast. Enjoy this amazing series of interviews and learn how Yifat has now dedicated her life to sharing her father's unique art and for the world to know about Thomas's Auschwitz survival story. Yifat presented The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz to the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance live program also called "The Boy Who Draw Auschwitz" which was recorded on 4.23.2022 and available on the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance YouTube Video Channel.
Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance interviewed Yifat on 5.22.2022
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Ursula Duba is a poet, author, teacher and lecturer based in Stony Creek, CT. The main focus of her writing is about the Holocaust, the Third Reich and the complex legacy of those historical events. Among her published works are Inherited Pain and Defective Genes – Descendants of the Shoah and the Third Reich, based on three years of research and over 50 in-depth interviews with sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors and German gentiles in the U.S., Germany and Israel. Tales From A Child Of The Enemy, Penguin 1997, and the essay Germany-The Legacy Of Bystanders, Cowards, Desktop Murderers And Executioners, Yale University 1999.
Duba's novel "This Child Doesn’t Look Very Aryan", (Penguin Publishing) is the story of an average family living in Hitler Germany; and a collection of essays elaborating and analyzing Duba’s experiences while participating in German/Jewish dialogues, accompanying German-Jewish emigres back to their home towns as guests of honor, the isolation and lack of support of German gentiles who want to research their family’s history during the Nazi regime, and the scarce creative output by German gentiles to address the legacy of the Hitler regime on a personal and societal level.
Duba’s experiences during her upbringing and adult life have given her a unique insight and perspective into both the Holocaust and the Nazi regime. She was born shortly before the outbreak of WWII in Cologne, Germany, to a non-Jewish family. She grew up during the impenetrable silence of the postwar years in Germany and trained to be a translator and interpreter at the time. For the first time in her life, at the age of nineteen, she was confronted with the knowledge of the Holocaust during a trip abroad. That pivotal experience led her to spend a year on a kibbutz in Israel in the early sixties where she had her first encounters with Holocaust survivors. She has since made more than a dozen trips to Israel. In 1965, she and her former husband, whose parents had both been refugees from Nazi Germany, immigrated to the U.S. For the first four years, they lived in an Eastern European neighborhood in Brooklyn among refugees and Holocaust survivors. The stories she gleaned over time from her Brooklyn neighbors became a major impetus for her book Tales From A Child Of The Enemy. Duba’s perspective about Germany and its history is that of a person who knows the many-layered historical and psychological underpinnings from the inside and the outside.
At the same time, she has gained rare insight – for a gentile – into the legacy of the Holocaust through her decades-long friendships and associations with Holocaust survivors. A documentary film about Duba’s life and work and the issues they raise is being developed by veteran filmmaker, Gail Freedman, and her company Parrot Productions. Over the past six years Duba has read and lectured at many middle- and high schools, colleges and universities, and cultural and religious institutions throughout the U.S., Israel, and Germany (see lectures). She is a captivating reader and an effective and forceful public speaker. Moreover, she actively facilitates provocative dialogue with her audience and does not shirk the most difficult questions.
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Survivor Sam Steigmann from NYC speaks about growing up, his time in Israel, coming to the US his family and his need to speak to students about the lessons of history and the reasons for the Holocaust.
Jeffery Giesener
Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group with over 6,500 members and video views.
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Holocaust Survivor Ben Midler share his life story for The Obligations of Memory Podcast Network. Ben survived 6 concentration camps during the Holocaust. He is currently 94 years young. Ben wrote a Holocaust Memoir book entitled "The Life of A Child Survivor from Bialystok, Poland" and it is currently sold on Amazon.
Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube, Jeffery Giesener interviewed Ben on 4/14/2022.
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Dr. Michael R. Mantell is the best-selling author of "The Link Is What You Think". Dr. Michael is also an international keynote speaker in behavior science of leadership, fitness, and life transformation having been featured many times on ABC's Good Morning America.
Through his books and many lectures, he teaches readers and clients how to turn every situation in life into one in which they win or learn, but never lose. He helps people let go of anger, unconditionally accept themselves, get along better with themselves and others, and live with greater peace of mind. Paula Mantell is a certified fitness instructor primarily working with seniors. She has been a Spanish/French teacher in junior high and high school in San Diego, CA USA county, a key volunteer at numerous community and synagogue events.
Dr. Mantell earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.S. degree at Hahnemann Medical College, where he wrote his thesis on the psychological aspects of obesity. After serving as Chief Psychologist for Children's Hospital in San Diego, he created and led the program of Psychological Services for the San Diego Police Department. He has been an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD Medical School. Today's discussion focuses on how the Mantell's were influenced by the diversity of their own Jewish upbringing and how they brought those influences into their own Jewish home.
They are blessed with two adult male children and six grandchildren. A special treat for listeners, Dr. Michael shares with us his profound knowledge and wisdom of the Torah and how to see the phycological interpretations in the weekly Torah portions. Dr. Michael writes a weekly Torah Parsha column for the San Diego Jewish World and the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Social Media Group on Facebook and YouTube. The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network is presented by the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube.
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The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network presents Sol Pinczweski author of From Bergen Belson To Brookly.
Sol passionately speaks about his mother, father, and the Brooklyn Candy Store they had when he was growing up in the Italian section of Brooklyn, NY USA. He emotionally shares how his Mom as Bergen Belson Holocaust Survivor and he and his brother along with his Survivor father were protected by the Brooklyn, Mafia.
Bergen Belsen to Brooklyn is an emotional, powerful, funny at times deeply personal family story of survival written by Sol to the memory of his parents of blessed memory.
So was Interviewed for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of The Obligations Of Memory Podcast of The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance @Facebook and @YouTube.
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Bonnie Gleicher Farkas and Esther Weiner identical twin sisters talk about their lives as Second-Generational Survivors along with sharing their Holocaust Survivor stories of their father and American-born mother lives (of blessed memory) out of the darkness of the Shoah into the light of the many next chapters of their lives.
How the Holocaust memories passed along by their parents created their own Intergenerational Survivor Trauma (IST) and how IST affected them throughout their lives. They discuss how even how their trauma continues to affect them, their children, and grandchildren.
If feel you are suffering from Intergenerational Survivor Trauma you are not alone and the two sisters share openly about their Survivor's father, their own parental relationships, and how trauma has perhaps also affected their own children.
To learn more below is an article on Intergeneration Survivor Trauma from Scientific America
https://www.scientificamerican.com/search/?q=intergenerationa+survivor+trauma
The book
From Prisoner To Partisan - My Holocaust Story by Leon Gleicher
is available on Amazon
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Podcast Recorded 5-4-2022 Interviewer is Jeffery Giesener
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Fred Zaidman a second-generation survivor from Los Angeles, CA USA shares his family history and his persistent need to know more about his grandparents and other relatives lost in the Shoah.
Fred takes us along on his personal journey which was filmed by the two-time Emmy Award-Winning Producer, Writer, and Director Donna Kanter. In their documentary film "Their Presence Of Their Absence" anyone who is longing to know more about their family and those lost in the Holocaust needs to see this film.
"The Presence Of Their Absence" is now streaming on paid Amazon Prime.
Fred's film takes us to Poland, Israel, Los Angeles, and Atlanta where Donna introduces Fred to Dr. Steven Brill President and CEO of the Matzevah Project. Together as friends and colleagues, all three decide to go to Poland to explore and discover where Fred's long-lost Grandparents were buried.
No spoilers here...
You won't to miss this important expedition to find one's ancestors and see firsthand Fred's experiences as Fred researches his own Jewish Family Tree.
Interviewed by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group.
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Second Generation Survivor Ariella Getrajhendler from Toronto Canada and Second Generation Survivor Fred Zaidman from Los Angelos CA USA provides the introduction of his cousin.
As a 30-year teacher of the arts, drama, and music in Toronto, Canada Ariella shared the following story. Ariella Getrajhendler has a special place in Drake's heart. The junior high teacher taught pre-teen Aubrey "Drake" Graham his favorite subjects: singing, acting, and dance. Every year, she put on a big musical, and Drake — who could act and sing like a professional from a very young age — was always a shoo-in for a lead role. But Getrajhendler had one simple rule: miss three rehearsals and you're out. So when Drake started skipping Fiddler on the Roof rehearsals... she had to fire him. But she did know talent when she saw it.
Ariella shares her family story of her Survivor parents and what it was like to grow up in a Survivor's home. You will enjoy this episode of The Obligations Of Memory Podcast. Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook, YouTube, and The Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network. Take 30 minutes of your time and learn more about Second Generational family stories from all across the globe. No two stories are the same but in every story, there is a common thread and personal connection that all Second Generational Survivors have for one another.
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Welcome to the Obligation of Memory™ introductory podcast from The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group. Listen in as we're sure you will enjoy the varied and interesting content presented in each episode. You'll experience interesting speakers, interviews, creative arts, Survivor testimonies all discussing the Holocaust, Jewish Culture and digital programming how you can push back on the growing scale of Hatred and Global Antisemitism.
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