Issue 8, Spring 2018 Archives - Kavod https://kavod.claimscon.org/category/issue-8/ A Claims Conference Publication Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:25:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Collection of Poetry from Betyna Bock https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/collection-of-poetry-from-betyna-bock/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/collection-of-poetry-from-betyna-bock/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:17:44 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1866 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 weren’t looking. Now sixty years later in your smart red blazer and pleated floral skirt you breeze…

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]]> https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/collection-of-poetry-from-betyna-bock/feed/ 0 Art Therapy With Holocaust Survivors: A Case Study https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/art-therapy-with-holocaust-survivors-a-case-study/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/art-therapy-with-holocaust-survivors-a-case-study/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:17:43 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1829 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 emotional well being have been reported for diverse populations (Canadian Art Therapy Association, 2017). The multi-faceted approach of Expressive Therapies can be very appropriate…

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]]> https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/art-therapy-with-holocaust-survivors-a-case-study/feed/ 0 Teaching About Trauma: Models for Training Service Providers in Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Care https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/teaching-about-trauma-models-for-training-service-providers-in-person-centered-trauma-informed-care/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/teaching-about-trauma-models-for-training-service-providers-in-person-centered-trauma-informed-care/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:17:43 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1878 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 Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (2014), “individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by…

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]]> https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/teaching-about-trauma-models-for-training-service-providers-in-person-centered-trauma-informed-care/feed/ 0 Compassionate Responses https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/compassionate-responses/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/compassionate-responses/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:17:42 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1832 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 its survivors and its child survivors and also teach of the trans-generational transmission of that trauma on the descendants…

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]]> https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/compassionate-responses/feed/ 0 Music and Memory: Rekindling Joy Through Music https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/music-and-memory-rekindling-joy-through-music/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/music-and-memory-rekindling-joy-through-music/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:04:22 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1857 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. Looking around the room when a performer plays Broadway tunes or sings Jewish music in Hebrew or Yiddish, it is easy to see the…

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]]> https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/music-and-memory-rekindling-joy-through-music/feed/ 0 Client Outreach: Tales of a Wandering Jew https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/client-outreach-tales-of-a-wandering-jew/ https://kavod.claimscon.org/2018/02/client-outreach-tales-of-a-wandering-jew/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:25:32 +0000 http://kavod.claimscon.org/?p=1872 By Deb Kram I’m sitting in yet another airport terminal, waiting to board my flight after presenting to and meeting with local survivors of the Holocaust. With a soft fluttering of wings, I notice a bird perched, not far, on the back of one of the seats. Smiling, I wonder to myself, will the bird…

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