Today I listened to the first episode of I Want You To Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer.
This first episode was entitled A Revelation,and sets the scene for why and how Ester set out to uncover the truth about what happened to both her parents and their extended families during the brutal years of the Holocaust.
There are four more episodes.
"Esther Safran Foer's haunting memoir tells the story of her quest to uncover how her family endured and survived the Holocaust across four generations. Her determination to remember the lives of those lost takes her from her home in Washington to the sites of the shtetls where her parents lived and worked in Urkraine. Read by Sara Kestelman.
When Esther Safran Foer's mother made an extraordinary revelation about her father, Esther set out to uncover the truth about what happened to both her parents and their extended families during the brutal years of the Holocaust. In the absence of memory, mementos, photos, or even names, Esther must find unique ways to record and remember the past. What emerges is a powerful story about loss, memory and the power of kinship and community.
Esther Safran Foer was the CEO of Sixth and I, a centre for arts, ideas and religion. She lives in Washington D.C with her husband Bert. They are the parents of Franklin, Jonathan, and Joshua, and the grandparents of six.
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard"*
Picture; cover of I Want You To Know We're Still Here, 2020
*I Want You To Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rll7
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