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Door to Door: A Pilgrimage Across GenerationsAuthor: Judaism Unbound
This isnt just a story of suffering. Its a story of survivaland sacred persistence. Door to Door is a deeply personal, five-part podcast series tracing one Jewish familys multigenerational pilgrimage from a once-lost home in Wachenbuchen, Germany, to the present-day echoes of inherited memory, trauma, and resilience. Told through archival recordings, family reflections, and emotional returns to ancestral ground, this podcast chronicles the survival of Simona Holocaust survivor taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp during Kristallnachtand the generations that followed him. It's a story shaped by suffering, but defined by rebuilding, remembrance, and an enduring commitment to legacy. From whispered memories to stumbling stones, from silence to storytelling, Door to Door invites listeners to witness what it means to reclaim identity from the wreckageand to carry forward the names, the stories, and the truths nearly erased. If youve ever felt the weight of inherited memory, or the pull to understand where you come from subscribe to Door to Door wherever you get your podcasts. Let this be part of your story, too. Language: en Genres: Documentary, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Episode 5: What We Choose to Build
Episode 5
Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
Part of belonging to a lineage is the act of finding ourselves within the story, claiming a particular link in the chain of inheritance, as testimony to our merit for inclusion. And then he’d say, "Jews are responsible for each other." We all heard that phrase from him. It was the partner to his positivity. Forgive in your heart, and take your inheritance of survival, your legacy of peoplehood, seriously. And we did. [1] We thought a lot about how this story ends. Is it with one of Miriam’s children, the next generation? Is it by returning to Simon’s voice? Who gets to hold the final piece of this turning of the story? And in the end, we decided that there is no end, it intentionally hangs, unbalanced, unfinished, a thread that both continues to be pulled and woven at the same time. [2] What was it that we inherited? What gift came of this line of life that should never have been? We think it’s one another. The choice to continue to choose each other, to be one another’s best friends and learn to love each other as best as we can. In that spirit, we share a few sweet memories - of lives well lived, joys tangled with sorrows, and the freedom that comes with the birth of new branches on the tree of our family story. Check out the website for additional resources and photos of events and people discussed in this episode.
