WEEK 78 FOR THE HOSTAGES IN GAZA
WEEK 78 FOR THE HOSTAGES IN GAZA
1983
A Bird in the Wind
Sunday, May 8, 1983
The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine https://bit.ly/3ChVROU
"The best article written on the life of a survivor." -- Michael Berenbaum
1987
Spotlight: Garden of the Righteous Gentiles, Wilmington, Delaware
4-minute film, WHYY-TV
1995
Speaking For the Ghosts: A story for my mother
Sunday, May 14, 1995
The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Visiting the Past
25-minute TV documentary
Produced by Janine Jaquet Biden
2012
After 'In Darkness': Halina Wind's uplifting message
Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012
Los Angeles Times
A Holocaust saga: From the sewers to a garden
Thursday, April 19, 2012
CNN.com
2021
Wordless: The Jews of Turka
19-minute documentary by Ukrainian filmmakers including 1992 footage shot by David Lee Preston
An Appreciation of Dr. Heschel, eulogy by Halina Wind Preston (1922-82), survivor of 14 months in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lviv 1943-44. Memorial service 1/21/73 for Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), scholar, philosopher, civil rights activist who was her teacher at Jewish Theological Seminary of America. It was Heschel who opened and read her first letter to her brother announcing her survival, which arrived at the seminary in 1945. Audio digitized and transcribed in 2025. (See below.)
HALINA WIND PRESTON
On Friday, May 1, 1981, my mother was interviewed by WHYY-TV reporter Elma Andrews at the Holocaust monument in Freedom Plaza in Wilmington, Delaware. This short film clip is the only known footage of my mother speaking. She died in a Philadelphia hospital on Dec. 2, 1982, after cardiac bypass surgery at age 60.
"THE EARTH WAS BREATHING"
On Jan. 8, 1942, the second day of Ukrainian Christmas, a 16-year-old boy named Jaroslaw Klimentowych Dolnyawka witnessed a mass murder of 880 Jewish men, women, and children in a field outside my mother’s hometown of Turka-nad-Stryjem. I interviewed him standing in that field in October 1992, and the 15-minute raw footage is shared now for the first time. For details, read my Mother's Day 1995 article Speaking for the ghosts: A story for my mother.
Reuters producer Lewis Macdonald interviewed me from his office in Warsaw, and the story went viral: A group of young explorers had gone into the sewers of Lviv and found evidence of my mother's group that hid there for 14 months in 1943-44.