Robert J Wolf MD author of not a real enemy. Tell me about your vision
Well, hi Jackson, I appreciate you having me on thank you so much
It's it's an honor to be a guest on your program
Well, my vision is pretty straightforward
I am fervently trying to fight anti-semitism in my own little way my own little corner
My mom and dad were both Holocaust educators when I was growing up and the first half of my life
I wasn't I didn't really care that much because I was I went to medical school and raised a family a career
Sort of a different to it. But later in life
Sort of grew on me and my mom continued to educate
my family and friends
Not just about the Holocaust but communists communism the dark world in general. So
Six years ago when I started this project writing the book if you knew me then you'd say this guy would never do this
I'm not a writer. I'm a doctor. I'm a I'm an anatomy and math and science and
But you you never know that you'd never guess that I did this that I would do this
so but I got the bug I I had a lot of things going on in my life, but
after my dad died and then my mom died a
Historian friend handed me a disc of my dad's autobiography that they compiled they did it in the 70s
And they wrote the stories as though they had happened the previous day. They were very sharp. They were very well-rounded
They're intelligent
Loved not just history but arts and sciences museum travel
education and
It I got the bug I converted my dad's autobiography into a biography and they literally went paper and pencil to
typewriter to a computer to a disc and then after my mom passed in
2016 a historian friend handed me the disc and said you have to read this and I might have read the manuscript
You know, maybe 30 years before but never thought much of it
But then this next time when I did in 2018
I said this cannot the story is so amazing that it cannot sit in a computer cannot sit on a piece of plastic
This needs to be shared and the messages were clear from page one to the end of the book talk about anti-semitism
And and how my dad fought it off and survived and it wasn't so good for for everybody
But my dad was miraculously miraculously got through it. So he was a four-time escape artist, which was a big draw
multiple miracles in between all that
The very lucky split-second things that I'm lucky that he was lucky to make it to the United States
I'm lucky to be around it's a big it's a gratitude thing. So
Legacy for my parents and I'm giving back to the Jewish community
That's amazing
So goodbye October 1943 the house was dark and quiet
Irvin stepped into his parents bedroom knowing that despite the early morning hour his father would want to say goodbye
A part of him wanted to just leave not face him not see once more the creeping fear that day by day had etched itself
Deeper into his father's face. So the now his fright was unmistakable
It's a powerful book
What a powerful message
vision I
Yeah, I look forward to seeing you continue to move this forward
It's it's super important that we as a world move towards love
That's my belief. I'm gonna project that belief on people. They wonder not that's the one that I I will project
So this is a this is fantastic and I can't wait to learn more about it. Thank you for being here today
I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward
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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself