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Episode 452: Doron Keren – Beneath the Lightless Sky (Part 2)
Host: Arnie Herz
In Part 2 of Habits of a Whole Heart, Arnie Herz continues his deeply meaningful conversation with Doron Keren, grandson of Holocaust survivor Ignacy Heger and the translator and publisher of the memoir Beneath the Lightless Sky. Moving beyond the historical events, this episode focuses on the enduring lessons carried forward from one family’s survival beneath the streets of wartime Lvov.
Doron reflects on how reading his grandfather’s words reshaped his own identity and responsibility as a second-generation witness. The discussion explores the moral courage required not only to survive physically, but to preserve dignity, faith, and humanity in unimaginable conditions. Arnie and Doron examine the extraordinary actions of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha, whose decision to help a Jewish family evolved from a transaction into an act of conscience, illustrating how ordinary individuals can make life-altering moral choices.
Together they confront timeless questions: Why do some people become rescuers while others remain bystanders? How does dehumanization begin? And what warning signs should we recognize in our own society today?
This episode challenges listeners to see Holocaust history not as distant memory but as a study of human behavior and responsibility. It is a powerful conversation about empathy, moral courage, and the daily choices that shape both character and history.
Habits of a Whole Heart is part of the Humanity Matters series from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center on hmTv, inviting audiences to move from remembrance to action.