hmTv at HMTC Podcasts Ep 452: Habits of a Whole Heart with Arnie Herz and guest Doron Keren P2 on hmTv
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Episode 452: Doron Keren – Beneath the Lightless Sky (Part 2)
Host: Arnie Herz
In this moving continuation of Habits of a Whole Heart, Arnie Herz sits down again with Doron Keren to explore the meaning behind his grandfather’s Holocaust memoir Beneath the Lightless Sky. After recounting the dramatic survival story in Part 1, this episode turns to the deeper lessons that emerge from living 14 months hidden inside the sewers of wartime Lvov.
Doron shares how translating his grandfather Ignacy Heger’s manuscript transformed his understanding of family, identity, and responsibility. The conversation highlights the power of maintaining dignity, faith, and compassion even in the harshest conditions, and examines the remarkable courage of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha, whose decision to help a Jewish family evolved into an act of moral conviction.
Together, Arnie and Doron discuss bystanders, rescuers, and the dangers of dehumanization, drawing clear connections between Holocaust history and choices people face today. The episode challenges listeners to recognize that history is shaped not only by governments and armies, but by individual decisions, empathy, and moral courage.
Habits of a Whole Heart, part of the Humanity Matters series from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center on hmTv, invites audiences to move beyond remembrance and consider what responsibility looks like in their own lives today.