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    • About
    • Parents
      • Halina
      • Speaking tour, 1949-53
      • Seminary years, 1947-50
      • Halina and Heschel
      • George
      • George's scrapbook
      • The Preston Lecture
    • Thoughts
      • Newsletter
      • Op-eds
      • Book reviews
      • Blog
    • Nazis in U.S.
      • 2021: "Issues & Answers"
      • 1992: Jonas Stelmokas
      • 1990: Sergis Hutyrczyk
      • 1988: Nazis in the GOP
    • Related work
    • Evidence
      • June 21, 1941: Communion
      • July 1941 Lviv pogrom
      • 1942 Lviv doctors
      • 1942 West Ukraine doctors
    • Appearances
    • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Parents
    • Halina
    • Speaking tour, 1949-53
    • Seminary years, 1947-50
    • Halina and Heschel
    • George
    • George's scrapbook
    • The Preston Lecture
  • Thoughts
    • Newsletter
    • Op-eds
    • Book reviews
    • Blog
  • Nazis in U.S.
    • 2021: "Issues & Answers"
    • 1992: Jonas Stelmokas
    • 1990: Sergis Hutyrczyk
    • 1988: Nazis in the GOP
  • Related work
  • Evidence
    • June 21, 1941: Communion
    • July 1941 Lviv pogrom
    • 1942 Lviv doctors
    • 1942 West Ukraine doctors
  • Appearances
  • Contact

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Halina Wind Preston (1922-82)

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 

https://youtu.be/GULNySg65uk


1995


Speaking For the Ghosts: A story for my mother

Sunday, May 14, 1995

 The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine

https://bit.ly/2RpjTQ5


Visiting the Past

 25-minute TV documentary

Produced by Janine Jaquet Biden

https://youtu.be/gD8NV-e7rqY


2012


After 'In Darkness': Halina Wind's uplifting message

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Los Angeles Times

https://tinyurl.com/28csshbu


A Holocaust saga: From the sewers to a garden

Thursday, April 19, 2012

CNN.com

https://cnn.it/2CUAF5x


2021


Wordless: The Jews of Turka

19-minute documentary by Ukrainian filmmakers including 1992 footage shot by David Lee Preston

https://youtu.be/Nv1MQRpj0oc

AUDIO: Jan. 21, 1973


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.)

Annotated transcript, Halina Wind Preston eulogy for Heschel

Video: May 1, 1981

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. 

Oct. 26, 1981: Wilmington (Del.) Evening Journal

Video: october 1992

"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. 

1995: James McBride, "The Color of Water"

Video: NBC NEWS, Oct. 6, 2021

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.


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