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Heather Dune Macadam

New York, United Kingdom
As seen in: The New York Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, National Geographic, NPR, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Blaze Media, Jewish Book Council
Covers:  Holocaust, Human Rights, Women's History, Animals, Conservation
Doesn't Cover: Tech and banking!
Author. Filmmaker. Human Being.

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Heather Dune Macadam’s Biography

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HEATHER DUNE MACADAM began her career as a performance artist and dancer with the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company. After an accident prematurely ended her performance career she began writing. Dancers are fairly quiet people but since then she hasn’t shut up!

Her latest book: 999-The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz comes out in the USA Jan. 2020 and UK Feb 2020. Her first book, was RENA’S PROMISE: A STORY OF SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ, was also…

Heather Dune Macadam’s Journalist Portfolio

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'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on

'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on

"I'm sure I've survived for a reason," says Edita Grosman. "One of us had to still be here to tell you what h…

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Commentary: A Survivor with Alzheimer's

Commentary: A Survivor with Alzheimer's

Commentator Heather Dune Macadam is the co-author of the book Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz…

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This life: Heather Dune Macadam on her long distance relationship

This life: Heather Dune Macadam on her long distance relationship

I am staring at the small cube on my computer screen and the man I love. Almost. His face has fractured into …

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Yom Hashoah: Keeping Rena's Promise Alive in Our Hearts

Yom Hashoah: Keeping Rena's Promise Alive in Our Hearts

On March 24, 1942, Rena Kornreich turned herself in to go to a Nazi work camp. Nobody could know then what Au…

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Sacred Ground App: Triumphing over Holocaust, Hate

Sacred Ground App: Triumphing over Holocaust, Hate

BALTIMORE -- Sisters Rena and Danka Kornreich survived almost all of World War II together in the Nazi death …

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How Two Sisters' Love Helped Them Survive Auschwitz

How Two Sisters' Love Helped Them Survive Auschwitz

On March 26, 1942, in Poprad, Slovakia, 998 women boarded a train. They thought they were going to a work cam…

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Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust: Annette Zelman's Story

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By Anne Sinclair, Sandra Smith, Edith Bruck, Gabriella Romani, Heather Dune Macadam
| Jewish Book Council
“Here is Annette Zel­man, just nine­teen … Her mane of thick, dark blond hair gleams in the sun­light, pinned in a fash­ion all her own. Curls akim­bo. A head­band hauls them back off her face, almost. She is still a teenag­er; the baby fat has not yet fall­en from the cheeks of her face. Her eyes squint in the win­ter light and crin­kle in a full-on smile.” Here is a lost girl of the Holocaust. Annette wasn’t always lost. She was the sun around which her fam­i­ly revolved. The leader of the chil­dren.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I wrote a piece for a local paper on pets on the beach; I came home with a Dalmatian puppy. I have had Dals every since!

Have you ever used a typewriter?

LOL! Man was I happy when they developed erase tape!

How is social media changing news?

Ask Russia.