Book Event: “Sons of Survivors”: A Conversation with the Authors
Join authors Aron Hirt-Manheimer and Marty Yura—sons of Holocaust survivors conceived in a displaced persons camp—for a powerful conversation about their new dual memoir, Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited Trauma (Mandel Vilar Press, 2025). Growing up in a community of refugees, they inherited the unspoken weight of their parents’ Holocaust experiences and later embarked on a moving search to understand that history and transform trauma into a legacy of love over hate.
Hear how friendship, storytelling, and memory helped them make peace with the past, and explore what it means to carry family stories across generations.
This event is being co-produced by Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.
Aron Hirt-Manheimer
Elie Wiesel described Aron Hirt-Manheimer as “a writer possessed of a rare blend of integrity, persuasiveness, and good literary sense.” Aron co-authored Jagendorf’s Foundry: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust (HarperCollins 1991) and Jews: The Essence and Character of a People (HarperCollins 1998), published in ten languages. He edited Reform Judaism, the world’s largest circulated Jewish magazine from 1976 to 2014, and founded Davka magazine in 1970, cited by the Encyclopedia Judaica as “fostering a Jewish cultural renaissance.”
Marty Yura
Marty Yura moved to Israel in 1970 after graduating from UCLA and became an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he served as a field psychologist on the Golan Heights. He has worked as a psychologist, management consultant, and entrepreneur. In 2009 he and his wife founded Vista Yoga in Atlanta, where he teaches yoga and meditation. He also teaches yoga at a program for veterans with PTSD at Emory Healthcare, one of four such programs in the U.S.