Issue 6, Winter 2016

Witness Theater at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield, Michigan

January 27, 2016 Kavod Leave a comment

By Charles Silow, PhD On April 8, 2013 at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a group of six Holocaust survivors and five high schools students performed in a Witness Theater project in front of an audience of 400. Under the direction of Corrine Stavish, professor of Speech and Literature … Continue Reading ››

Issue 6, Winter 2016

A Multidimensional Exploration of the Effects of Identity Ruptures in Israeli and North American Holocaust Survivors

January 21, 2016 Kavod Leave a comment

Clinical, Policy, and Programmatic Implications

written by: Yael Danieli Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, NY, USA Fran H. Norris Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA

Author Note

This study was supported by grants from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Anti-Defamation League and Richard Rockefeller, M.D. The authors wish … Continue Reading ››

Issue 6, Winter 2016

Never Forget-Never Enough

January 21, 2016 Kavod 1 Comment

by Chavie Brumer, LCSW-R “But my mother won’t go and I don’t know what else to do,” says the caregiver in the back row, clearly at her wit’s end. She is referring to the fact that her mother, a Holocaust survivor, refuses to see the doctor or the social worker despite the fact that her … Continue Reading ››

Issue 6, Winter 2016

Beshert – It was Meant to Be

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Issue 6, Winter 2016

Encounters with Chronic Psychiatric Holocaust Survivors: Trauma, Psychosis and Functionality

January 21, 2016 Kavod Leave a comment

By Irit Felsen, Ph.D.

Part I

Abstract

This paper describes encounters with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent decades in psychiatric institutions in Israel. The interviews with the patients took place in the context of the Testimony Project (Strous et al., 2005). The focus of this paper is … Continue Reading ››

Issue 6, Winter 2016

Witness Theater in New York: Transforming Holocaust Survivors, High School Students and Communities through Therapeutic Theater

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by Adeena Horowitz, LMSW Administrative Director, Nazi Victim Services Program, Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Witness Theater was conceived and initiated by Irit and Ezra Dagan, and developed and expanded by JDC-Eshel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s elderly division in Israel. The essence of this unique program is the creation of a therapeutic environment for Holocaust … Continue Reading ››

Clinical, Policy, and Programmatic Implications

Author Note

Part I

Abstract

Honoring Aging Survivors