hmTv at HMTC Podcasts Ep 503: The Fog of War and Humanity with Richard Acritelli and guest Irving Adler P1 on hmTv
Ep 503: The Fog of War and Humanity (Part 1)
In this powerful first installment of The Fog of War and Humanity, host Richard Acritelli sits down with Irving “Irv” Adler to begin a deeply personal and gripping conversation about family, survival, and the enduring impact of the Holocaust.
Irv shares his upbringing in Brooklyn as the child of Holocaust survivors and reflects on the quiet yet profound ways their experiences shaped his life. Through vivid storytelling, he recounts his parents’ vastly different childhoods in Eastern Europe—his mother’s middle-class upbringing and his father’s unimaginable struggle as an orphan forced to survive on his own from the age of eight.
As the shadow of World War II begins to close in, Irv traces the early stages of Nazi expansion and the fragile, fleeting moments of normalcy his parents held onto before everything changed.
This episode sets the stage for a remarkable journey of resilience, identity, and survival—reminding us how history is not just events, but lived experiences carried across generations.