Episode 529: Door to Door IV - Forever Unfolding
From Judaism Unbound by Institute for the Next Jewish Future
April 3, 2026 · 41 min
About this episode
This episode features the fourth installment of the Door to Door podcast series, exploring a Jewish family's multigenerational journey and the themes of memory and resilience.
This week, Judaism Unbound is thrilled to feature the 4th episode of Door to Door: A Pilgrimage Across Generations -- another podcast in Judaism Unbound's family of podcasts! Full shownotes for Door to Door Episode IV can be found here. ------------------------- Head to JudaismUnbound.com/classes to check out upcoming mini-courses in the UnYeshiva: on Reproductive Justice, Torah during Climate Catastrophe, Yiddish Revolutionary Folksong, and Jewish Citizenship Bound & Unbound! Financial aid is available. -------------------------- Door to Door is a deeply personal, five-part podcast series tracing one Jewish family’s multigenerational pilgrimage from a once-lost home in Wachenbuchen, Germany, to the present-day echoes of inherited memory, trauma, and resilience. Told through archival recordings, family reflections, and emotional returns to ancestral ground, this podcast chronicles the survival of Simon—a Holocaust survivor taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp during Kristallnacht—and the generations that followed him. It's a story shaped by suffering, but defined by rebuilding, remembrance, and an enduring commitment to legacy. Door to Door invites listeners to witness what it…
Topics covered
- multigenerational pilgrimage
- Holocaust survival
- inherited memory
- trauma and resilience
- identity reclamation
Keywords
- Door to Door
- Jewish family
- podcast series
- memory
- trauma
- resilience
- Holocaust
- identity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Judaism Unbound, Institute for the Next Jewish Future
Places: Wachenbuchen, Germany, Buchenwald Concentration Camp
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