PERSEVERANCE on WQED PBS •70 MIN
Perseverance by L.E. McCullough details Holocaust survivor Melvin Goldman’s journey of healing and renewal in post-World War II Pittsburgh. Adapted from a memoir by Goldman’s daughter Lee Kikel, Perseverance is a Holocaust story that holds out hope with the history. Produced by Prime Stage Theatre, Perseverance premiered April 15, 2023 at New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh PA. Watch the film here: https://plus.wqed.org/show/perseverance/video/perseverance-gxqi9w/?tab=similar
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Eighty years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and uncovered the horrors of the Holocaust.
The day now also known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the six million Jews killed in the massacre, nearly one million of which were murdered at the Nazi death camp. It comes amid a drastic rise in antisemitism and a little more than a year after October 7th, the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Read more and watch the report at https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/holocaust-remembrance-day-pittsburgh-survivors/
New play tells story of Holocaust survivor who started over in Pittsburgh
Host Heather Abraham is talking with author Lee Goldman Kikel and actor David Nackman about "Perseverance," a book turned play about a Holocaust survivor who moved to and started over in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh native reflects on father’s story of survival, family history through Holocaust
SAXONBURG — A black and white picture of 12-year-old Mieczylow Goldman, which was hidden in a chimney and discovered after World War II in the walls of what remained of his family home in Łódź, Poland, is one of the only pictures that remains of the Holocaust survivor’s childhood.
As a child, Lee Goldman Kikel’s father didn’t speak much about being ghettoed in the bustling town where he once went to synagogue, played soccer and went to school. He did not speak about being transported by cattle-car to Auschwitz, where he was known by Nazi guards as Prisoner KZ6427, how he was separated from his family, narrowly escaped death in a crematorium, and was imprisoned in three different concentration camps.