Ripples of Trauma and Resilience: Partner Relationships among Second-Generation Survivors of the Holocaust
By Eli Somer*1 and Moshe Nizri1 Many researchers assume that the continuing influences of the Holocaust on its survivors are long-term, and hypothesize that its stamp is also present in the ...
Read the full articleCollection of Poetry from Betyna Bock
By Betyna Bock My Mother Tongue My mother tongue lies dormant,shipwrecked in dark childhood memorieslike a water damaged diaryof a past traveller. Once I spoke this language well,a fluent pre-schooler,tossing nouns and adjectives in the ...
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By Renee Symonds My uncle is musing, “I remember the day she was born. I didn’t want to go to school. I was 7 years old. I remember my mother giving birth to ...
Read the full articleHolocaust Survivors As Participant Educators: Giving Space To Lived Experience Of Social Trauma in Collective Memory
By Irit Felsen, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Edelstein This paper describes the Educators program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. This program reflects the ...
Read the full articleL’dor Vador: Holocaust Survivor Story Sharing Project
By Sara Zenlea, LCSW This article focuses on the interactions and feelings experienced between elementary level students and Holocaust survivors in school settings. Background Adults who experience close intergenerational interaction are less prone to ...
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By Philipp Sonntag On 13 April 2001, the Association of Child Survivors in Germany (Child Survivors Deutschland, CSD) was established, nearly fifty-five years after the end of the Holocaust. The group, initially modest ...
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By Betyna Bock Nora at the Fruit Shop In Theresienstadt you worked in the vegetable garden and stole fruit and vegetables. You defied death by disregarding the rules and hiding them in your lumber jacket while the Czech police ...
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By Michael Andrew Eisinger, M.A., and Barbara Joyce Bedney, Ph.D., M.S.W. The Jewish Federations of North America Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care December 29, 2017 According to the Substance Abuse and Mental ...
Read the full articleArt Therapy With Holocaust Survivors: A Case Study
By Tatiana Kastner, MSW, RSW “Art is a powerful tool of communication,” as C.A. Malchiodi says in her Handbook of Art Therapy (2003, p. 3). Its therapeutic benefits for the person’s ...
Read the full articleCompassionate Responses
By Renée Symonds Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home (Board Member) Co-ordinator Holocaust Awareness Program The Sydney Jewish Museum (Consultant Psychologist) How does one transmit the history of the Holocaust, of the traumatic life-long effects of the Holocaust on ...
Read the full articleMusic and Memory: Rekindling Joy Through Music
By Emily Kaplan Through the musical offerings at our monthly Café Europa social luncheon events, our Holocaust Survivor Support team quickly realized that music holds a special place in survivors’ hearts. ...
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