Article: Flashes of Memory: The Survivor Story of Irene Lewkowicz Shashar Maggie Leone is a graduate of Oakland Catholic High School in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently a junior studying journalism in the College of Communication at Boston University. As a result of a religion/history course titled “The Holocaust,” Maggie’s interest in…
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Article: Principles and Practices for Implementing Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Care for Holocaust Survivors and Other Older Adults Shelley Rood Wernick is the Director of the Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care at The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Launched in 2015 with a federal grant from the Administration for Community Living at the U.S. Department…
Article: Resilience through Art: Art Therapy with Holocaust Survivors from the Former Soviet Union Mariya Keselman, MA, ATR-BC, LPC – is a counseling and program manager and a creative arts therapist at KleinLife. She has worked in medical, psychiatric and community settings with individuals who experienced medical, mental health, complex trauma, collective trauma, genocide, persecution,…
Article: Principles and Practices for Implementing Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Care for Holocaust Survivors and Other Older Adults Leah Bergen Miller, Senior Project Manager, launched the JFNA Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care over four years ago. From 1999 to 2015, she dedicated herself to the field of refugee resettlement, working as a case worker at Church…
Article: A victory for father’s sake David Boas is a prominent Israeli macroeconomist with more than 40 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Mr. Boas held various key positions in the public sector, including the Director of Budgets in Israel’s Ministry of Finance (in the early nineties), strategic consultant to the Minister…
Article: 8 Transcending Victimization through Empowerment Myra Giberovitch is a consultant, educator, speaker and Adjunct Professor at the McGill School of Social Work. She is the author of Recovering from Genocidal Trauma: An Information and Practice Guide for Working with Holocaust Survivors (University of Toronto Press, 2014). In the 1980s, she started the first community-based…
Article: The Tasty Travels Club for Holocaust Survivors at JFCS of Greater Philadelphia Carly M. Bruski is a licensed social worker and the Assistant Director of the Holocaust Survivor Support Program at Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia (JFCS). Carly is also the Executive Director of the Montgomery County Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition (MCAT)…
Article: Person-Centered Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy with Holocaust Survivors and their Family Caregivers Alyssa Reiner is a social worker and program manager at Jewish Family Service of Central NJ. She provides counseling/case management services as well as yoga therapy to Holocaust Survivors and their family caregivers. Alyssa holds an MSW from Boston University, and is a Yoga Alliance accredited yoga instructor.…