Season One: Love & The Holocaust

Season one "Love & The Holocaust" explores the experiences and love of Eva and Leslie Aigner against the backdrop of hate and the Holocaust. Examining the profound connection between love, survival, and the science of Epigenetics, we seek to understand how ancestral and childhood trauma may have influenced choices and overall effects of overcoming hate.
 

By unveiling how school bullying in their early childhood quickly escalated into the forced wearing of Jewish stars on their lapels, we witness the speed and ease with which hatred pervaded their lives. The hostility and brutality with which they were met only furthered in the following years culminating in Eva’s narrow escape from execution along the river Danube. For Leslie, he, his mother and nine year old sister were taken to Auschwitz. Separated upon arrival, he would look for them through the barbed wire fences each day and would never lay eyes on them again. 
 
After each having endured such unthinkable experiences, fate stepped in and brought them together by way of a blind date. Love soon emerges and together  they forge a treacherous journey to begin a new life in America.
 

In addition to exploring their harrowing upbringing and escape to the United States, Love and The Holocaust showcases the Aigner’s resilience and bravery when they break their silence for the first time to speak out against Holocaust deniers. This daring act of courage opened up a lifetime of advocacy to highlight and explore the broader impact of trauma and injustice  on other marginalized communities, and reveal the effects across generations.