Filmmaker
John Pollick is a lawyer in Illinois. He has written extensively about his maternal grandparents, Jewish immigrants from what is now Ukraine, and his father, an American GI wounded in France. In 2019 he traveled to Ukraine to make a film about the "Forgotten Holocaust", the estimated 2.4 million neglected and unburied shooting victims in Eastern Europe, including his grandparents' families.
This podcast was recorded during the part of the year in which the holiest of Jewish holidays takes place. It seemed appropriate to take some time to remember those of us who were lost during the Holocaust, but a part …