Ep 576: Raised by Survivors with Bernie Furshpan and guest Fern Mehler on hmTv

Send us Fan MailPodcast Description: Ep 576 Raised by Survivors with Bernie Furshpan and guest Fern Mehler on hmTvIn this episode of Raised by Survivors on hmTv, host Bernie Furshpan welcomes Fern Mehler for a heartfelt and deeply personal conversation about growing up as the child of two Holocaust survivors.Fern shares powerful stories of her parents’ survival, including her father’s escape from the Krakow ghetto using false papers and her mother’s extraordinary ingenuity in Auschwitz. Together, Bernie and Fern reflect on what it meant to grow up in homes where, as Fern beautifully says, “inside the house, it was Eastern Europe; outside the house, it was America.” With warmth, humor, memory, and honesty, they discuss survivor family culture, Yiddish expressions, traditional foods, resilience, inherited trauma, and the responsibility of the second generation to keep these stories alive. The conversation also turns to the rise of antisemitism today and the urgent need to educate young people before hate and propaganda take deeper root.This episode is a moving tribute to Holocaust survivors, the families they built, and the sacred duty of remembrance carried forward by their children and grandchildren.Support the show