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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theobligationofmemory/message