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.     Try YouTube Kids Learn more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 [email protected]   Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance was the interview for the Obligations of Memory Podcast Network.   Recorded 4.6.2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message

Second Generation Steven Russek Survivor speaks about his Survivor Parent's 1 2 Episodes 6 8 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theobligationofmemory/message