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In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection...

When we hear the word "holocaust", we immediately remember the dark days, the blood, the people, and the pain that no words can express. This huge event, daunting as it can be, left a mark in the lives of the people who experienced it and even those who have only heard of it. The Nazis not only brought destruction, but they brought an unforgettable scar amongst the human race. At those times, the victims would have called for a savior, someone who could literally take them out from the hell they were living in.

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. On a sunny day in 1944, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States...

Here the emotional journeys of two German Jewish refugees are reconstructed from a substantial collection of family material, archives and secondary historical sources, which are used imaginatively to explore and illuminate a wider history. The letters evoke how it felt at the time to be a refugee and express eloquently the distress and losses involved in exile, separation and internment, providing intense dynamic snapshots of how they managed their emotions from day to day. The author shows the complex interrelationship between personal lives and social/historical events.

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story - the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors - has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements". 

Memories of an Italian Holocaust refugee as told to his son.

Tout le monde a déjà eu besoin d’un refuge. Sa maison d’enfance, une cabane, le divan de son psychanalyste, une terre d’accueil… Le mot Refuge prend des formes différente selon le parcours de chacun. Pour certains, il évoque des endroits réconfortants, où l'on se sent en sécurité, alors que pour d’autres il est lié aux migrations et à l'exil. Cette pluralité d’imaginaires, de définitions et de perspectives nous a donné envie d’explorer toute la polysémie de ce terme. Dans cette série de 6 épisodes, découvrez avec Julia Lasry et ses invités les refuges qui ont ...