This coming Sunday will be the first meeting of a new Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors in Manhattan. Now that I have become a resident of Manhattan, I… READ MORE>>
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First Meeting of the 2GNYC “Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust”: Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors
Posted by on April 1, 2019
Presentation Date: 04/07/19
Location: Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, located at 7 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
A Report Following My Presentations at an Intensive Seminar On Intergenerational Transmission at Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program
Posted by on March 31, 2019
From March 1-3, 2019, I had the honor of leading an intensive seminar, together with Dr. Hadas Wiseman, at the Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program, a master’s program headed by the historians Dr. Arieh Kochavi and Dr. Yael Granot-Bein. The seminar was focused on the debate about inter-generational transmission in Holocaust families. To read more about it, please click on… READ MORE>>
I Am Starting to Facilitate A New Second Generation Group in Manhattan
Posted by on March 11, 2019
Children of Holocaust Survivors have grown up in families that were different from other families. Our parents were very different from one another, they came from different countries, backgrounds, and families, but they all survived inconceivable catastrophic experiences and shared certain characteristics as a result of such traumatic histories. What our parents experienced before we were born impacted the way… READ MORE>>
Teaching an Intensive Seminar at Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program
Posted by on February 23, 2019
I am honored to have been invited to teach at the Haifa University Holocaust Studies Program in Israel, an interdisciplinary MA program. I am looking forward to spending three intense and fascinating days between March 3-5 with an international group of students and esteemed colleagues who will discuss their empirical findings and their views on the effects of intergenerational transmission… READ MORE>>
My recent article “Holocaust Survivors as Participant Educators: Giving Space to Lived Experience of Social Trauma in Collective Memory” in now available online
Posted by on February 11, 2019
The article, written in collaboration with my colleague Elizabeth Edelstein, Vice President for Education at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, can be now accessed online by clicking on the image below: True to its mission, to be a living memorial to the Holocaust, the Museum hosts a very unique program which is lovingly… READ MORE>>
2019 International Holocaust Commemoration Day
Posted by on January 28, 2019
2019 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was marked today by a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in NY, which took place at the General Assembly. The focal point emphasized by all speakers was the critical importance of Holocaust education, the lessons that need to be learned from the Holocaust, and the questions… READ MORE>>