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This is Learning From Genocide, a series brought to you by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in which we hear the testimonies of people directly affected by the Holocaust, Nazi persecution, and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. We also hear why we must continue to honour the past in order to create a safer present and a better future. Over 7 episodes, you'll hear testimonies of extraordinary experiences in the face of appalling and deliberate atrocities. Some of those who survived genocide, against all odds, now use their voices to educate the world and to ...

12 inspiring lessons on life to help you release your self-limiting beliefs and embrace your potential - from the celebrated therapist, Holocaust survivor and author of the award-winning international bestseller, The Choice. Each moment in Auschwitz was hell on earth. It was also my best...

Holocaust survivor and licensed therapist Karmela Waldman shares brutally honest advice about life and death—often deploying brutally sharp wit—with her son and podcast co-host, Joel Waldman.

Brought to you by Penguin. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz’s life his parents were at pains to keep their past concealed from him. All he knew for sure was that they had grown up in Hungary and that they had arrived in Britain after the Second World War. It was only as he reached...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply important testament for Ashkenazi Jews. Her memories are our important history.’ Robert Peston, ITV Political Editor A moving and powerful...

Resentment, fear, and unresolved pain often sit at the center of addiction, anxiety, and emotional suffering. Step Four of the Twelve Steps was designed to confront these patterns through honest selfexamination and moral inventory. In this book, Glenn Langohr combines the principles of Step Four, Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, and elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to help listeners identify and confront the thought patterns that keep resentment, depression, and destructive behaviors alive.

The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power...

*Little Boy, I Know Your Name* is a deeply moving memoir about the invisible wounds we carry, the stories we inherit, and the extraordinary courage it takes to break free from the past. Through raw honesty and remarkable vulnerability, Mitchell Raff invites listeners on a journey that is as heartbreaking as it is hopeful.

Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946 — despite having no money or professional skills — his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering.

Hundert Jahre Glücklichsein: Der über hundertjährige Holocaust-Überlebende Eddie Jaku erzählt, wie er in dunkelsten Stunden zu Freude, Dankbarkeit und Hoffnung fand - ein Jahrhundertleben und eine aufrüttelnd-anrührende Geschichte voller Weisheit. Über all die Jahre hinweg habe ich eines gelernt: Das Leben ist schön, wenn du es schön werden lässt. Ich möchte Dir meine Geschichte erzählen. - Eddie Jaku. Eddie Jaku wird 1920 in Leipzig geboren und wächst als Sohn einer jüdischen Mittelschichtsfamilie auf.

Finding your place in a family tree that has only one branch, the other shorn by the Holocaust, is a tricky business. Gail Weiss Gaspar grew up believing that her worth was tied to busyness and productivity, with achievement and education prized above all other accomplishments.