hmTv at HMTC Podcasts Ep 392: Legacy Chronicles with Zachary Graulich and guest Doron Keren on hmTv
In Legacy Chronicles Episode 392, host Zachary Graulich welcomes Doron Keren, a second-generation Holocaust descendant carrying his family’s story forward with urgency and purpose. Doron shares the extraordinary survival of his grandfather Ignacy Heger, who led his family into the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lviv for fourteen months, aided by Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha. Doron also reflects on his mother Krystyna Chiger’s memoir The Girl in the Green Sweater and the powerful impact of watching a survivor relive trauma in order to teach others.
This conversation explores what it means to inherit memory, how responsibility becomes duty as survivors become fewer, and why firsthand family testimony is one of the strongest answers to denial and distortion. Doron also explains the striking differences between telling the same events through a child’s eyes versus an adult architect of survival, and why publishing Beneath the Lightless Sky in English is a “full-circle” milestone. The episode closes with what comes next: public talks, community education, and Doron’s long-term goal of adapting the memoir into a TV series.
To learn more about Doron’s family story, read The Girl in the Green Sweater and Beneath the Lightless Sky, and visit hmtcli.org for more episodes of Legacy Chronicles.