{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 109 Doron Keren","description":"\u201cMemory without responsibility is just nostalgia,\u201d reflects podcast guest Doron Keren, the keeper of his family\u2019s harrowing Holocaust survival story. \u201cSomeone has to make sure that stories like this live and are experienced by future generations.\u201d Keren, a retired dentist, has determined to do just that, working tirelessly to help shepherd first his mother\u2019s story (The Girl in the Green Sweater, by Krystyna Chiger, co-written with podcast host Daniel Paisner), and now his grandfather\u2019s memoir, (Beneath the Lightless Sky, by Ignacy Chiger), to bookstore shelves. His grandfather\u2019s gripping, historically significant account, just published by Amsterdam Publishers, revisits Ignacy Chiger\u2019s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where he hid with his family for 14 months in the city\u2019s underground sewers, with the help of an unlikely hero. The book stands as a compelling companion piece to Krystyna Chiger\u2019s 2008 international best-seller, the inspiration behind the 2011 film \u201cIn Darkness,\u201d from acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Time magazine film critic Richard Corliss called the movie \u201ca thrilling adventure picture\u2014as if Anne Frank had found an Inglourious Basterd to help her make \u2018The Great Escape.\u2019\u201d In his foreword to Beneath the Lightless Sky, Keren calls his grandfather \u201ca real-life superhero\u201d\u2014a description that is well-earned. \u201c[He] outwitted interrogators,\u201d Keren writes, \u201cevaded deportation, engineered the survival of a small underground community, and kept alive the faintest flicker of hope in a place where even light could not enter.\u201d Join us as Keren shares what it was like to grow up beneath the shadow of the Holocaust, and what it means to keep sharing the stories that give our lives shape and meaning. Learn more about Beneath the Lightless Sky: Facebook page Instagram page Please support the sponsors who support our show: Gotham Ghostwriters' Gathering of the Ghosts Ritani Jewelers Daniel Paisner's Balloon Dog Daniel Paisner's SHOW: The Making and Unmaking of a Network Television Pilot Heaven Help Us by John Kasich Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall by Lindsey Jacobellis Film Movement Plus (PODCAST) | 30% discount Libro.fm (ASTOLDTO) | 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 when you start your membership Film Freaks Forever! podcast, hosted by Mark Jordan Legan and Phoef Sutton Everyday Shakespeare podcast A Mighty Blaze podcast The Writer's Bone Podcast Network Misfits Market (WRITERSBONE) | $15 off your first order  Film Movement Plus (PODCAST) | 30% discount Wizard Pins (WRITERSBONE) | 20% discount ","author_name":"As Told To","author_url":"http:\/\/astoldtopodcast.com\/","html":"