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Send us Fan Mail Legacy Chronicles | Ep. 687: Sophie Weisz - Carrying Holocaust Memory Forward | HMTC One school project about Anne Frank opened Sophie Weisz’s path into her own family’s Holocaust history. Today, as a fourth-generation descendant of survivors, she is helping shape how memory will be carried forward. On Legacy Chronicles, Zachary Graulich speaks with Sophie about leading her school...

Send us Fan Mail Education in Motion | Ep. 686: Howard Merims — From Principal to Holocaust Educator | HMTC After 43 years in public education, Howard “Howie” Merims found a new classroom at HMTC. Donna Rosenblum welcomes the retired teacher, assistant principal, and principal to discuss why he chose Holocaust education as his next chapter. Howie reflects on the school communities that shaped his...

Send us Fan Mail It’s All About the Children | Ep. 684: Dan Cohen — A Father’s Awakening, Part 1 | HMTC A son’s memory of his father becomes a lesson in love, perspective, and inclusion. Carin Bail and Sami Steigmann welcome entrepreneur, author, podcast host, and storyteller Dan Cohen for Part 1 of a deeply personal conversation. Dan recalls the unconditional encouragement he received from his fa...

Send us Fan Mail It’s All About the Children | Ep. 685: Dan Cohen — From Awakening to Purpose, Part 2 | HMTC DESCRIPTION A father’s unexpected return to clarity becomes the beginning of a mission. In Part 2, Carin Bail and Sami Steigmann continue their conversation with author, podcaster, and storyteller Dan Cohen about love, memory, resilience, and the choices that shape a life. Dan describes the...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 683: Ronit Lapid — Yemenite and Sephardic Jewish Heritage | HMTC A childhood friendship becomes a journey through Jewish memory, culture, and belonging. Bernie Furshpan reconnects with Ronit Lapid, whose family story links Brooklyn, Yemen, Spain, Greece, Turkey, and Jerusalem. Ronit shares how her maternal great-grandmother made the difficult journey from...

Send us Fan Mail Education in Motion | Ep. 681: C.J. Burtnick — Teaching the Holocaust Through Stories | HMTC DESCRIPTION After sharing lunch with a Holocaust survivor, C.J. Burtnick’s students stand, take an upstander pledge, and explain what they learned. Their words tell her the history has become personal. On Education in Motion, host Zachary Graulich speaks with the New Jersey social studies...

Send us Fan Mail Kibitz with Keren | Ep. 682: Doron Keren — What Are We Teaching Our Children? | HMTC DESCRIPTION “What you teach your kids is what the future is.” That sentence leads Doron Keren to ask whether the challenges facing young American Jews begin long before college. On this host-only installment of Kibitz with Keren, Doron examines how K–12 Jewish education can give students the histo...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 679: Aimee Gagnon Fogg — Preserving the Ritchie Boys’ Stories | HMTC Every Memorial Day, Aimee Gagnon Fogg places Kurt Jacobs’s photograph at his grave in Belgium. One face is still missing: fellow Ritchie Boy Murray Zappler’s. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin speaks with Aimee, founder of They Speak: Voices of Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, about...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 680: Steve Koppell — Running Through Grief and Fatherhood | HMTC DESCRIPTION Seven weeks after promising his wife, Stacey, that he would run the New York City Marathon, Steve Koppell lost her unexpectedly. Their daughter, Hannah, was only 15 months old. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin speaks with Steve about becoming a solo parent, preserving Stacey...

Send us Fan Mail hmTv Episode 678: Education in Motion Donna Rosenblum with Guest Russ Plotkin From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Impact of an HMTC Docent What inspires someone to become a Holocaust educator? Donna Rosenblum, Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, welcomes HMTC docent Russ Plotkin for a conversation about education, volunteeris...

Send us Fan Mail The Israeli Bond | Ep. 675: Penn’s Academic Bridge Fellowship After October 7 | HMTC After the October 7 attacks, a group of University of Pennsylvania faculty members traveled to Israel with a desire to listen, understand, and help. They returned with the beginnings of an idea that became the Academic Bridge Fellowship, a summer program connecting young Israelis with research lab...

Send us Fan Mail The Butterfly Effect | Ep. 676: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? | HMTC If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Gilad Avrahami and Bernie Furshpan begin with this timeless philosophical question and transform it into a deeply human one: Do we act ethically because other people are watching, or because we have developed the character to do what is...

Send us Fan Mail Putting the Brakes on Bullying | Ep. 677: Boundaries, Empathy and Adult Bullying | HMTC A chance conversation about a taco bag at Day of Hope in Jerusalem became an unexpected friendship. It also opened the door to a powerful discussion about identity, adult bullying, personal boundaries, inclusion, and the courage to remain true to yourself. In Episode 677 of Putting the Brakes o...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 672: Escape from a Nazi Death Train (Part 1) | HMTC Susanne Bleiberg Seperson’s mother escaped a Nazi deportation train by climbing through loosened boards and jumping into deep snow. Her final memory of her own mother was feeling the hands that pushed her through the opening and saved her life. In Episode 672 of The Fog of War and Humanity , host...

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Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 674: Auschwitz, America’s Silence and Antisemitism (Part 3) | HMTC Susanne Bleiberg Seperson once asked her mother why she never removed the number tattooed on her arm at Auschwitz. Her mother replied, “It doesn’t matter. I will always know where I was.” The physical mark was visible, but the deeper wounds of persecution, imprisonment, and loss re...

Send us Fan Mail Legacy Chronicles | Ep. 671: The Holocaust Did Not Begin with Gas Chambers | HMTC “The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers.” For Dr. Ettie Zilber, that statement is more than a history lesson. It is a warning about how persecution develops gradually through false narratives, propaganda, separation, discriminatory laws, collaboration, and the silence of people who choose not...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 670: The Hidden Medals of a WWII POW (Part 2) | HMTC Jerome L. Frankel was only 19 when he was wounded, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, forced to march through freezing conditions, transported in a cattle car, and imprisoned at Stalag IV-B. He survived, returned home, raised a family, and rarely spoke about what he had endured. In Episode...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 667: Bill Byrne: No Veteran Left Behind (Part 1) | HMTC As a boy watching the Vietnam War end, Bill Byrne saw how returning veterans were treated and made himself a promise: if he could help it, that would never happen again. In Episode 667 of The Fog of War and Humanity , host Richard Acritelli welcomes Bill, a veterans advocate and president of...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 668: Bill Byrne: Helping Veterans Heal and Come Home (Part 2) | HMTC Veterans are trained to be strong, disciplined, and self-sufficient. Those same qualities can make it difficult for them to admit when they need help. Bill Byrne’s message is direct: veterans have earned their benefits, and asking for support is not a sign of weakness. In Episode...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 669: Leah Freeberg: Battle of the Bulge POW (Part 1) | HMTC For most of her life, Leah Freeberg knew only fragments of her father’s World War II service. He sometimes spoke about surviving on potato peels and lived with damaged feet and severe back pain, but he never told his daughters that he had been captured during the Battle of the Bulge, impr...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 666: Fern Schumer Chapman: Holocaust Trauma Across Generations | HMTC At age 12, Edith Westerfeld was sent alone from Nazi Germany to the United States. Although her parents made the agonizing decision to save her life, Edith experienced the separation as betrayal. For decades, she remained trapped inside a child’s broken heart, believing she had been sen...

Send us Fan Mail Putting the Brakes on Bullying | Ep. 665: Dan Grunfeld: Holocaust, Bullying and Basketball | HMTC Ernie Grunfeld arrived in America at age nine without speaking English. Bullied because of his accent and immigrant background, he transformed adversity into determination, becoming an Olympic gold medalist, NBA star, and respected basketball executive. Just as importantly, he became...

Send us Fan Mail Legacy Chronicles | Ep. 664: Joan Arnay Halperin: My Sister’s Eyes | HMTC For most of her childhood, Joan Arnay Halperin never knew she had an older sister. Her parents had escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with their daughter, Yvonne, but the child died tragically in a Jamaican refugee camp. The loss was so painful that Joan’s mother could not speak Yvonne’s name for decades. In Episo...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 663: How Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Family in America | HMTC For Holocaust survivors rebuilding their lives after the war, close friends often became family. They celebrated holidays together, raised their children together, helped one another through hardship, and created a community connected by shared history and an unspoken understanding. In Episode...