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Uncorking a Story

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Stories influence, teach and inspire us, but what about the storytellers who create them? Uncorking a Story profiles storytellers to uncover how their background and life experiences influence the stories they create. We learn what motivates them, their path to success, and what fuels them to keep creating. It all starts by asking one simple question, where does your story begin? Welcome to uncorking a story. All of the books promoted on Uncorking a Story can be viewed and purchased here: https://bookshop.org/shop/UncorkingaStory

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Seeing in Color, with Annette Libeskind Berkovits

September 16, 2022 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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Every now and then I uncork a story that just won’t leave me and Annette Libeskind Berkovits’ story is exactly one of those.

While this is a story about a person growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust, I want to be clear, as does Annette, that this is not a tragedy. In fact, it is a story about overcoming trauma and learning how to adapt when the winds of change are blowing in your face.

In our rich and emotional conversation centered around her latest memoir, Aftermath: Coming-of-Age on Three Continents, Annette and I cover:

  1. Why, when growing up in post-war Poland, Annette felt she did not see in color, only black and white.
  2. How she felt when moving to the fledgling state of Israel, the challenges of learning a new language, Hebrew, and how she began seeing in color during this time.
  3. The heartbreak she felt when her father left Israel for America.
  4. How Annette adjusted to life in America after settling in the Bronx, all the while not knowing the language with her only frame of reference of the United States being the propaganda the Soviets taught her about America when she was in Poland.
  5. Why learning from the past is important and how it does not have to define what the future holds for us.

“My father populated my entire childhood with people who were murdered, not just his family, but also his friends and his teachers and and I just feel a responsibility to pass it on. And recently, my daughter wrote a story about the impact of anti-semitism that she just had published in the Jewish Writing Project. So that history, as you say, gets passed down the generations, and when it doesn’t it’s a real problem.” — Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Annette’s story is really one of overcoming hardship, adversity, and the trauma of the past. I know you will be inspired by our conversation and ask that you take the time to listen to this in its entirety.

Buy: Aftermath: Coming-of-Age on Three Continents

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qFBVRX

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9789493276390

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Website: https://annetteberkovits.com

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3eUZmEh

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