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TO BE CONTINUED...Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors

Rabbi Jeff Salkin

Welcome to our podcast, TO BE CONTINUED… Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors, where we explore the intersections of memory, identity, and resilience. Our goal is to lift up the experiences of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, and to ask how survivors’ memories shaped their lives. How did resilience help form who they are today? And what legacy will they leave for the generations that follow? Within the next 10 years, most survivors will be gone. As the world loses

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Marisa Fox: The Shocking Secrets of Her Underground...

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2026/10/05

For most of her life, Marisa Fox believed her mother, Tamar, was a fiery redhead who fled Poland as a child on the eve of World War II, fought for Israel's independence, and reinvented herself as a New York doctor's wife.She insisted she was never a Holocaust victim. But the dates never added up, and every question ended with the same answer: "No more questions." Twenty years after her mother's death, an elderly relative let a secret slip, and Marisa set off on a decade-long investigation that

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49:08

Daniel Rachel: How Do We Confront the Hatred in Rock...

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2026/09/08

In this episode, TO BE CONTINUED... steps outside its usual format for a podcast exchange with Martini Judaism, also hosted by Rabbi Jeff Salkin. He speaks with author Daniel Rachel about This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich, a history of something that has been hiding in plain sight for more than 60 years. The conversation runs from the Beatles and John Lennon's private Nazi memorabilia collection, through David Bowie's years-long obsession with the Aryan ideal and

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46:38

Judy Batalion: Trauma Moves Through Generations — But...

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2026/08/10

This episode is generously sponsored by Gail and Dennis Roth in loving memory of Gail's parents, Frances and Meyer Weisman who were both born in Czechoslovakia. Frances survived both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and Meyer endured various hard labor camps. They were thrilled to arrive in New York in 1949, to begin a new life together.New York Times bestselling author Judy Batalion grew up in a house in Montreal that was filled to the brim: her mother and grandmother had suffered from compulsive

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42:55

Dara Bratt and Michelle Rose: Tattoos, The Evolution...

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2026/07/06

The real question isn't simply whether Judaism prohibits tattoos. We know the Torah speaks against them. Holocaust survivors imprisoned at Auschwitz II-Birkenau did not choose their tattooed numbers — they were an act of degradation and dehumanization. But what happens when descendants of Holocaust survivors choose to use that traditionally prohibited practice as an act of sacred remembrance? Is this a break with tradition, or an attempt to fulfill one of Judaism's greatest commandments: Zachor— to

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48:28

Charlie Scheidt & Kat Rohrer: Holocaust Descendants...

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2026/06/08

What happens when the son of a Holocaust survivor meets the granddaughter of a Nazi officer?In this powerful episode of TO BE CONTINUED... Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors, host Rabbi Jeff Salkin sits down with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer, co-authors of Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Charlie grew up in a German Jewish household on New York's Upper West Side, surrounded by family members who had fled Nazi Germany, and a silence about the past that was

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35:44

Nick Winton: Inheriting Moral Clarity

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2026/05/11

What does it mean to grow up in the shadow of an extraordinary father — one whose secret acts of heroism saved 669 mostly Jewish children from the Holocaust, yet never spoke a word of it to his family?In this episode of TO BE CONTINUED... host Rabbi Jeff Salkin sits down with Nick Winton, son of Sir Nicholas Winton, the quiet, unassuming British stockbroker who, beginning in late 1938, organized the rescue of hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Over the course of

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36:58

Leora Einleger: Granddaughter of Dr. Ruth, on...

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2026/04/06

A deeply personal conversation with Leora Einleger, granddaughter of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, groundbreaking sex therapist and Holocaust survivor is featured on this episode of TO BE CONTINUED...Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors.The conversation reveals how Dr. Ruth’s experiences of profound loss fueled a lifelong commitment to joy, human connection, and combating loneliness and antisemitism, offering a powerful meditation on how trauma can be transformed into meaning, and how legacy

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45:42

Dina Kraft: The Legacy of Anne Frank’s Best Friend

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2026/03/10

Anne Frank's best friend survived to tell the story Anne could not. Journalist Dina Kraft and Hannah Pick-Goslar’s daughter, Ruthie Meir, reflect on friendship, survival, and the weight of carrying memory forward in this episode of TO BE CONTINUED... They discuss what was lost, and what was rebuilt through resilience, testimony, and hope across generations. TRANSCRIPT: This episode of TO BE CONTINUED… is sponsored by Vicki Robinson and Michael Robinson in honor of Morton Kess, who helped

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44:26

Jacki Alexander: De-Jewifying the Holocaust: Why...

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2026/02/12

"De-Jewifying" the Holocaust is the concerning trend Host Rabbi Jeff Salkin talks about in this episode of TO BE CONTINUED... with Jacki Alexander, CEO and President of HonestReporting.We are witnessing the media, politicians, religious institutions, and others talk about "6 million who died" while completely ignoring the Jews. This episode explores this trend, and examines how it threatens both accurate historical memory and contemporary Jewish safety. 🎧Listen now on your podcast streaming

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57:37

Menachem Rosensaft: Living With Ghosts

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2026/01/26

Menachem Rosensaft is an attorney, law professor, poet, and one of the most influential voices of the second generation. Born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to parents who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, he has spent his life engaging questions of memory, justice, and moral responsibility.In this episode of To Be Continued… Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors, Rabbi Jeff Salkin speaks with Rosensaft about what survives survival itself: exploring inherited trauma,

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Elizabeth Rosner: What Children of Survivors Carry...

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2026/01/23

Elizabeth Rosner is the acclaimed author of six books. In her book Survivor Cafe, The Legacy of Trauma, she confronts what it means to live in the aftermath of the Holocaust — not as a direct witness, but as a child of survivors. In this episode, Host Rabbi Jeff Salkin discusses with Rosner: How do we carry inherited pain? What role does storytelling play in transforming trauma into meaning? And how can remembering help us heal?

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