Episodes

  • Rascal | 1

    Rascal | 1
    Jan 27 2022

    Of the 15,000 children transported through or imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. When I found myself sitting in an Israeli cafe with one of those child survivors, a handsome, now elderly man with bright blue eyes and an infectious laugh, I couldn't have imagined the journey I was about to embark upon. 

     


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    26 mins
  • Praha | 2

    Praha | 2
    Feb 4 2022
    Prague - the city of a thousand steeples and the historical capital of Bohemia. Gidon Lev, his family and thousands of other Jews from the Sudetenland took temporary refuge in this grand city with long shadows and a golem in the attic. 

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    33 mins
  • Czechia | 3

    Czechia | 3
    Feb 10 2022
    The Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is a far cry from the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. What can it have been like to be transported away from an all-too-brief childhood to the depths of hell? 

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    38 mins
  • Theresienstadt | 4

    Theresienstadt | 4
    Feb 20 2022
    Gidon returns to Theresienstadt, where he spent four years of his life hungry, frightened, and in constant danger of being sent to the death camps. The memories are painful. 

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    31 mins
  • Liberation | 5

    Liberation | 5
    Feb 24 2022
    On May 8th, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated Theresienstadt. For Gidon, ten years old, frail, malnourished, and fatherless, a new chapter was about to begin. 

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    32 mins
  • Grace Street | 6

    Grace Street | 6
    Mar 6 2022
    In 1948, Peter Wolfgang Löw arrived in Brooklyn.  Fatherless, unable to speak English, and carrying unprocessed grief and trauma, Gidon was lost and lonely. One day, in Prospect Park, The HaShomer Hatzair socialist Zionist youth group invited him to join a soccer game. Gidon didn't know it at the time but joining that game would shape the direction of his life forever. He had found his tribe. 

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    27 mins
  • The New Jew | 7

    The New Jew | 7
    Mar 11 2022
    While the new State of Israel is finding its footing in the charged geopolitical realities of the Middle East, in Canada, Gidon immerses himself in the ideology of Zionism. With his mother is unable to overcome the trauma of the Holocaust, Gidon once again finds himself on a ship, headed to his next adventure. 

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    40 mins
  • Big Hard Sun | 8

    Big Hard Sun | 8
    Mar 22 2022
    It's 1960 and the world is once again changing. Only 15 years earlier, Gidon had been liberated from a concentration camp. Now he finds himself serving in the Israeli Defense Forces amidst one of the world's most complex, agonizing, and seemingly never ending conflicts. 

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    40 mins