I love my work. It is different and profoundly moving every day. Yesterday the theme of the day seemed to have been “the inner voice”. Our inner voice is sometimes hard to hear. We might have not been taught to listen to it. We might have even been taught that our inner voice is wrong, bad or stupid. But when… READ MORE>>
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Video-recording of the webinar is now available : “How Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Experience the Current Pandemic”
Posted by on May 27, 2020
“If you ask me how being the child of Holocaust survivors impacts my response to the current situation, I would say it helps. My standard response is, this is nothing compared to what my parents endured.” “Just before the pandemic was openly recognized, I had the feeling of a pending disaster, like I was living in Germany before Kristalnacht. Does… READ MORE>>
NYS Senate Declared May 20th As Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day!
Posted by on May 21, 2020
One of the issues I am most passionate about is older people. I have had the great fortune of having had very special relationships with older people as I was growing up, people who gave me a lot of their time, their love, and their wisdom, at a time when my mind and my heart were so open to take… READ MORE>>
I Am Chairing the “Elderly and Senior Population” Subgroup of the APA Covid-19 Task Force
Posted by on May 2, 2020
I have joined the Covid-19 Task Force of the American Psychological Association. The initiative for the task force was Dr. Charles Figley’s, a well-known figure in the field of trauma research. The Task Force is comprised of psychologists across the USA, as well as from other countries. Dr. Figely called upon all those who attended the first meetings to come… READ MORE>>
A Video Recording of My Recent “Witness to the Witnesses” Lecture is Now Available Online
Posted by on April 30, 2020
A video recording of my lecture at the Fourth Annual Holocaust Educators’ Conference, “Witness to the Witnesses”: Commemorating 75 years from Liberation (see my previous blog post at http://www.iritfelsen.com/2g-witness-to-the-witness-commemorating-75-years-from-liberation-a-conference-for-children-and-grandchildren-of-holocaust-survivors-and-others-open-to-the-public/), is now available online, as are the other presentations that took place over the course of this two-day educational conference on Feb. 16-17, 2020 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A… READ MORE>>