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 Story have made a career of it, and we honored them as upstanders for doing so.
“I think that there are issues on which Sarah is much more progressive than I am. There are some issues where I’m more progressive than she is… So we’re both fluid, and I hope getting more fluid and more difficult to characterize as we get older, because we spend so much time thinking and learning about these issues.” – Beth Silvers
In this episode you’ll learn more about Captain Irwin Hurley, the WWII veteran for whom Beth & Sarah’s Upstander Award was named. His experience during the war forever changed him, and his letters home to his wife in Northern Kentucky reflected the depth of his willingness to wrestle with what he and his enlisted men were seeing both at home and abroad.
Sarah and Beth talked to the Holocaust & Humanity Center’s Jackie Congedo about their thoughts on being upstanders, creating space that rewards vulnerability, and how they navigate difficult conversations.
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Episode Resources
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Read about the history of Dachau, the concentration camp liberated by Cpt. Hurley and many others
https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/en/ https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau
