Ep 602: Raised by Survivors with Bernie Furshpan and guest Silvia Fishbaum on hmTv

Send us Fan MailIn this moving episode of Raised by Survivors, host Bernie Furshpan sits down with Silvia Fishbaum, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, to explore memory, identity, art, and the responsibility of carrying history forward.Silvia reflects on growing up Jewish in postwar communist Czechoslovakia, the silence surrounding her father’s wartime experiences, and her eventual escape to the United States in 1979. She shares powerful memories of her father, who survived forced labor in Hungary, and speaks about the lasting impact of being raised in the shadow of Holocaust trauma.A central part of the conversation focuses on Silvia’s beloved art teacher, Holocaust survivor Ludovít Feld, a gifted artist and dwarf from Košice who was forced by Josef Mengele to draw his experiments in Auschwitz. Silvia discusses Feld’s extraordinary humanity, his haunting artwork, and the exhibit she brought to HMTC 14 years ago, which helped preserve his legacy and educate others through the emotional power of art.Support the show