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Holocaust Essentials is a production of 6M Holocaust Education Project. The purpose of 6M, and the Holocaust Essentials Podcast, is to ”make knowing about the Holocaust, popular”. This seasonal podcast will cover essential knowledge about the events surrounding the Holocaust. In a day when anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise, and when politicians, celebrities and cultural voices of influence misuse and misquote the Holocaust, it’s time that our society became more aware of the facts of this crucial piece of human history so that our generation, and generations to come, do ...

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest.