Food, Hope & Resilience: A conversation with the author June Hersh and a Holocaust Survivor

Join us on March 14th at 5PM PT | 8PM ET for a conversation with June Hersh, author of Food, Hope & Resilience: Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors. Moderated by International March of the Living President, Phyllis Greenberg Heideman. REGISTER NOW BUY THE BOOK ABOUT THE BOOKThis vital collection of survivor stories uplifts and inspires alongside recipes that nourish your soul. Read about daring partisans who fought in the woods, hidden children who sought comfort from strangers and those who endured unimaginable internment. For Holocaust survivors, food was a way to connect their lives before the war with the homes they created after. Their kitchens were filled with the aromas of familiar foods like chicken soup and brisket while unfamiliar delights they adopted, like arroz con pollo and gnocchi, became part of their repertoire. These are the recipes they share with you. Culinary icons such as Michael Solomonov, Jonathan Waxman, Ina Garten and more contribute their own recipes as tribute to the remarkable survivor community. Author June Hersh gives readers a taste of history and a life-affirming message that honors the legacy of Holocaust survivors.

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Commemorating 85 Years Since The First Kindertransport, Dec. 1938

Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, 12:00-1:00PM ET FeaturingPremiere of International March of the Living Film, “If We Never See Each Other Again”, with survivor testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation.Remarks – Lilly Maier, Historian and Author, discussing her newly published book, “Arthur and Lilly, the Girl and the Holocaust Survivor”Historical overview on the Kindertransport – Prof. Michael Berenbaum REGISTER NOW “Arthur and Lilly, the Girl and the Holocaust Survivor”What do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other’s lives in a fateful way. When Arthur Kern knocked on the door of the house where he grew up as a boy in Vienna, Austria, an eleven year old girl opened. Neither of them knew that this chance encounter would change both of their lives forever. In 1939, Arthur‘s Jewish parents sent their son abroad on a so-called Kindertransport (“children’s transport”), hoping to save him from the Holocaust. The separation is a traumatic experience for the ten-year-old. Although he is rescued – from Austria via France to the USA – his family is murdered by the Nazis. He never sees them again. Sixty-five years later: During a visit to his parents‘ former apartment in Vienna, Austria, Arthur Kern – by now a retired rocket engineer involved in the moon landing – meets eleven-year-old Lilly Maier. A decisive encounter for both of them, which not only shapes Lilly’s further life, but also leads to Arthur receiving a long-lost legacy from his parents. A moving tale of two lives that fatefully cross paths, and an immensely knowledgeable insight into an unknown Holocaust story: the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children to America on a Kindertransport BUY THE BOOK

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