Hear My Story: Joyce Kamen

Joyce Kamen is a storyteller, filmmaker, and community advocate who has been instrumental in preserving and sharing Holocaust survivor testimonies in Cincinnati. The dozens of testimonies Joyce documented became part

Hear My Story: Emily Kendall

Ordinary people creating extraordinary change is the story of upstanders Emily and Mark Kendall. The pair was honored with the Frank Gerson Award for Creativity at the 2024 Upstander Awards,

Hear My Story: Henry Fenichel

The world knows the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose family was hidden from the Nazis in a secret annex in a home in the Netherlands. When her

Hear My Story: Beth Silvers & Sarah Stewart Holland

How you look at life depends on your perspective. Keeping perspective when times are hard and polarization beckons is no small task. The women in this episode of Hear My

Hear My Story: Rob Herman

“I wish I would have had a chance to meet them and thank them – because I exist. And as I tell my kids, they exist because of people like

Hear My Story: Zahava Rendler

“My mother, my sister, my father and me, I had underground, a cellar. It’s like today, I would say a basement, but it was dark, no windows. Everybody was quiet.

Hear My Story: Whitney Austin

Whitney Austin responded to the darkest day of her life by becoming an upstander. In 2018, the wife and mother was shot 12 times as she entered a building in

Hear My Story: Helen Kaltman

For many years, Helen Kaltman did not tell her story. She said, “I just wanted to forget my childhood.” Later in life, Helen decided it was important to share her

Hear My Story: Patrice O’Neill

In 2018, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. In the months that followed, Patrice O’Neill brought her

Hear My Story: Ed Kruszynski

The Medic’s Wife almost didn’t get published. Author Ed Kruszynski started out writing his Dad’s story, as a medic deployed to Europe in WWII, as a family narrative only. And

Hear My Story: Dr. Albert Miller

There are many parts of Al Miller’s story worth sharing, but in this episode of Hear My Story, we lead with what could have been an inconsequential moment. Like thousands

Hear My Story: Eric Ward

Eric Ward leaves us inspired – to learn more about each other, to lean in in a spirit of curiosity, to deepen our knowledge about topics that can often feel