Episodes
STANDING IN YOUR OWN LIGHT - 2024 Yom HaShoah Program 3 Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community JCHRnow.circle.so Whether 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 Video and Video...
Published 05/01/24
Keep The Light Shining JCHRnow.circle.so 2024 Yom HaShoah 3-Part Program Series - Part 1 Inspirational 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 Blood Michael Ruskin - The Vow Louise Fein -...
Published 04/23/24
THE ONE REVOLUTION STORY...IS YOUR STORY Overcoming Hate-Navigating Unity-Embracing Kindness- We Are One. Remembering The Holocaust, 10.7 #neverisnow #weareone THE ONE REVOLUTION Brainstorming Begins… ON LIVE ZOOM Hi 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...
Published 04/05/24
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 2024 JOIN 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...
Published 03/09/24
Only Hope : Better Tomorrows Feb 18, 2024 Jewish Culture and Holocaust/10.7 Remembrance Community JCHRnow.circle.so We 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...
Published 02/24/24
Soundscapes of Serenity: Music for Inner Healing Trauma Support Havurah - JCHR107 & JCHRnow.circle.so with 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...
Published 02/09/24
JCHRnow.com International Film Festival - Peter Yarrow highlights... "We Are The Tree Of Life- CARRY ON" with Jacqueline Shema Gmach - Producer Recorded 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...
Published 01/11/24
Food, Hope & Resilience with author June Hersh & Obligation Of Memory Series for JCHRnow.com - 12.17.2023 June'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...
Published 12/31/23
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.com Presenters 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 -...
Published 12/13/23
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 Shrager Intermission: "The Kindness of Magic" a Short Talk - by Werner Reich "Speaking Yiddish to Chickens" with Dr. Judith Tellerman & Dr. Sol Pinczweski & Freddi Pakier Moderator and Founder of...
Published 12/01/23
The Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group presents...Trauma Support Group Havurah A Rabbis Forum a discussion about the War in Israel and the Shoah with Audience Participation Rabbi 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 --- Send in a voice...
Published 11/16/23
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 with Moderated by Dr. Dana Shrager with panelists Dr. Lynne Meyer and Rena Lipiner Katz - MSW Musical Guest Live From Italy Angela Amato Audience Discussion and Q&A. Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the JCHR and Dr. Dana Shrager Chat copy of Text Chat See...
Published 10/24/23
The War In Israel...Memories, worries, and evoked Trauma. A discussion between Survivors, and 2/3G's 10.10. 2023 With Physcolgists Dr. Dana Shrager and Dr. Lynne Meyer Moderator: Jeffery Giesener - Founder of JCHR Facebook Group and JCHRnow.com Yesterday 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...
Published 10/18/23
JEWISH CULTURE AND HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE GROUP PRESENTS… “WE ARE THE TREE OF LIFE” Sunday, September 18th, 2022 WITH JACKIE GMACH - Holocaust Surviv SAMI STEIGMANN - Holocaust Survivor JACKIE 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....
Published 10/07/23
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 min With 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...
Published 09/17/23
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: 11.10.2022 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...
Published 09/01/23
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...
Published 08/24/23
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...
Published 08/11/23
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,...
Published 07/26/23
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...
Published 07/14/23
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...
Published 06/27/23
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...
Published 06/14/23
Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com Group presents Yom HaShoah JCHRnow.com 2023 Series Part 3 Tibor 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...
Published 05/31/23
Stand Up To Jewish Hate: Professor Jeffrey Demsky, The Butterfly Project and The Paper Clip Project --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theobligationofmemory/message
Published 05/23/23
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 –...
Published 05/06/23