Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group presents... FROM THE DARKNESS OF THE SHOAH INTO THE LIGHT Recorded 7.17.2022 LUCY ADLINGTON The 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 MIDLER A Life of A Child Survivor From Bialystok, Poland Holocaust 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 PRESTON Honoring 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 Lichtenberg Lenka 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=Dl0nZDxUhG0 Program 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 [email protected] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theobligationo