Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Eszter Freeman on Making Sense as a Child of a Survivor of the Holocaust has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 4/19/2021 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 4/21/2021 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210419.html
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Making Sense as a Child of a Survivor of the Holocaust
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Featuring
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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz
2. Eszter Freeman, Activist, retired special education teacher
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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz: Our gueat today reminds us thatWar’s soldiers and their victims suffer long after a war officially ends.
Last week Elaine read only the names of the 10 Intentions. Starting this week she reads reads 2 Intentions and their descriptions from The Code: Ten Intentions for a Better World published by the Intenders for the Highest Good at https://www.intenders.com/the-code-2/ to “put you on the fasttrack to manifesting.”
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2. Eszter Freeman talks about being raised by her mother Blanca, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp under the Nazis but who had severe PTSD and, unable to shake the trauma of losing her parents and six of her seven sisters to the gas chambers and the horrors she experienced as a teenage slave worker in the Krupp armament factory by the concentration camp, would subject Eszter and her brother to emotional outbursts. It was not until Eszter learned about the PTSD suffered from Vietnam Vets that she recognized the symptoms in her mom, but by then it was too late to help Blanca. Eventually Eszter found more help through other children of survivor of the Holocaust. The first time Eszter was arrested and placed in a cell for a protest, she had a vision of her murdered relatives cheering her on. Eszter currently makes presentations to high school students about her experience with her mother. War’s hurt does not stop with the defeat or surrender, as attested to Eszter on her mother as a victim rescued from the camps, or by the soldiers still fighting the war in PTSD driven nightmares and emotional outbursts.
About our Guest: Eszter Freeman is a long-time peace and social justice activist. She is a retired special education teacher. She was born and raised in Pasadena, CA. Her mother Blanca was born in Hungary and was a survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War 11, except for a sister her mother’s whole family died during that time. Her father was born in Poland and came to the US fortunately before WWII. Her brother is an ultra-orthodox religious Jew who lives in Los Angeles.
Eszter wrote her mother’s story of growing up, being in the concentration. camp, and life after liberation. She pairs it with a power point and presents it to middle and high school students as the educational component of the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust at Sonoma State University. Eszter lives in Sebastopol, CA with her husband Larry, two dogs, two goats, and a goose.
Guest Links: eszter@sonic.net
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Herstory
Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Events:
April 19, 1977 – Fifteen women in the House of Representatives form the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues.
April 22 – Earth Day, honor Rachel Carson today, a woman who changed America and greatly influenced the environmental movement with her revolutionary book, Silent Spring.
Herstory Birthdays:
April 23, 1933 (2011) – Annie Easley, African American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist, one of the first African Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA, a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage.
April 24, 1902 (1989) – Jane Lee, Chinese activist in revolution of 1911, came to San Francisco on student visa in 1922 to Mills College, became a translator and journalist, worked in 1930s with the YWCA to find jobs for Chinese women.
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Announcements
Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Day of Action campaign of National Sexual Violence Resource Center: www.nsvrc.org
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
By My Silence sung by Sonia Disappear Fear from the album By My Silence (2019 Disappear Fear)
Prayer of St. Frances sung by Eliri Hari from the album Open Hand (2000 Eliri Hari)
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