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 articleDO WE HAVE FOCUS? – Supporting Holocaust Survivor Guides and Volunteers at The Sydney Jewish Museum
By Renee Symonds BA Dip. Ed., MA Psych. and Rony Bognar Abstract This paper discusses the creation and development of the Survivor Focus Group at the Sydney Jewish Museum (Sydney, Australia). It ...
Read the full articleManifestations of Generational Trauma: What, Why, Where and How We Feel Dissociations from Holocaust Trauma
Presentation Limmud Oz Sunday 24 November 2013 By Dr. George Halasz www.halasz.com.au With the rapid changes in our understanding of the ‘what’, ‘why’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of relational trauma arising from the recent ...
Read the full articleLife Beyond Despair
Exploring Holocaust Survivors’ Successful Coping and Adaption By Michelle Fishman “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche On May 8, 1945, Germany faced its unconditional surrender to Allied forces. With that, ...
Read the full articlePreparing for the Care of the Aging Child Survivor of the Holocaust
By Dr. Robert Krell Adult survivors of the Holocaust, age 17 years or older at the time of liberation, experience postwar life differently from those who were under age 16. The ...
Read the full article“Food & Love” – On the Role of the “Coordinator of Services for Holocaust survivors” at the Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Center in Israel
by Naomi Shacham, MSW “And I was hungry For food And for love I was hungry To feel what it is like to belong to someone I was hungry” (Wilhelmina, 2004) The poem above, written by an aging ...
Read the full articleCaring for Holocaust Survivors With Sensitivity at End-of-Life MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care, August 2013
When providing services to Holocaust survivors, it is important that we are particularly mindful of our words and actions, especially because we may be the last generation of caregivers and ...
Read the full articleHolocaust Survivors of Sexual Violence
We at Remember the Women Institute have been seeking for years to place the issue of sexual violence against Jewish women (and men) during the Holocaust in the narrative of ...
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Goodnight, Irene… Welcome Home! Transforming Relational Trauma in a Residential Setting By George Halasz, Magalí Kaplan, Rod Myer “And so I learnt that the poet is a pulse in the rhythmic flow of generations.” – ...
Read the full articleConference Presentation: End of Life
End-of-Life Issues for Holocaust Survivors A presentation given in October 2008 at an international conference in Frankfurt for professionals working with Holocaust survivors. By Judith Hassan, OBE Those who attended the conference in ...
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