E68. Jacob Bresler Has Never Stopped Believing in Humanity

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

From the ages of 11 to 16 Jacob Bresler survived five years of ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. He credits his inventiveness, his stubbornness, his resilience, and his will to survive as the reasons he made it through the war and created a new life for himself in America. He is a humanist. He does not hate. He has no enemies. He remains optimistic about the future, and believes that communication is the only way to combat ignorance and pierce the ideological bubbles we’ve segregated ourselves into. He and Bridget cover a variety of topics including the many different paths he’s traveled in his life, how he feels about the phrase “Trump is Hitler,” when we should teach children about the Holocaust, how best to counter hate, and the idea that the potential for brutality lies within all of us. Don’t miss Jacob’s autobiography: You Shall Not Be Called Jacob Anymore. Full transcript available here: WiW68-JacobBresler-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill, please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals, whatever. We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:33.0	feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	Since his liberation from concentration camps,
0:38.0	Jacob Bressler immigrated to the United States,
0:40.0	served in the US Army,
0:42.0	became an American citizen, studied opera and
0:44.1	Vienna, produced for Austrian television, owned and operated several businesses
0:48.5	including numerous restaurants, and has traveled the world sharing his
0:52.1	remarkable story.
0:53.0	Jacob wrote a book, You Shall Not Be Called Jacob anymore,
0:58.0	an autobiography of a child of the Holocaust.
1:01.0	And we sat down and had an amazing conversation
1:06.2	and now he's my best friend and we meet for coffee all the time.
1:10.4	And I'm humbled and grateful to be able to hear his story and share it with you.
1:16.1	I'm with Jacob Bressler everybody. You came to me through somebody in Twitter who
1:20.8	referred you because I do a podcast about grit and
1:23.9	resilience and they said I know the coolest man in the entire world.
1:28.0	Thank you very much for the accolades. Yeah he said and he said he's a Holocaust survivor
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