Tag | Second Generation

A New Year’s Reminder: Your Parents Would Have Wanted You To Be Happy

2018 is about to depart, and I want to wish my friends and colleagues a very happy and healthy 2019! A new year is always an occasion to pause and re-evaluate, as well as to orient ourselves towards the things we want to do in the coming years, the traits we want to continue to improve or get better under… READ MORE>>

REMINDER: LAST MEETING (Dec. 31): Discussion Group (Webinar): Grief and Renewal After the Loss of a Holocaust Survivor

A reminder that the final Webinar in the series was rescheduled and will now take place on Monday December 31/2018 beginning at 12:30 pm. More information, including how to register and how to listen to the recordings of the previous Webinars, is available at the MJHS website at  https://www.mjhs.org/healing/.                     Irit Felsen I will be leading a six-part discussion group,… READ MORE>>

My Letter to Editor Published in The Senior Times

My Letter to the Editor responding to an article that questioned the transmission of effects related to the Holocaust to the children of survivors (see my my blog post of Dec. 19) was published in the December print issue of The Senior Times. The issue can be downloaded from this link. I give a screenshot of my Letter below; clicking on… READ MORE>>

Response to Senior Times Article about Second Generation

In their November issue, The Senior Times published an article entitled “Psychologist Debunks Myths About Children of Survivors”, which was brought to my attention by several second generation individuals, who were perplexed by the content. I wrote a letter to the editor in response to the article, and was told the letter will be published soon in the Senior Times,… READ MORE>>

REMINDER: TOMORROW (Dec. 17): Discussion Group (Webinar): Grief and Renewal After the Loss of a Holocaust Survivor

A reminder that the next Webinar in the series will take place on Monday December 17/2018 beginning at 12:30 pm. More information, including how to register and how to listen to the recordings of the previous Webinars, is available at the MJHS website at  https://www.mjhs.org/healing/.                     Irit Felsen I will be leading a six-part discussion group, in the form of… READ MORE>>

REMINDER: TOMORROW: Discussion Group (Webinar): Grief and Renewal After the Loss of a Holocaust Survivor

A reminder that the next Webinar in the series will take place on Monday December 3/2018 beginning at 12:30 pm. More information, including how to register and how to listen to the recordings of the previous Webinars, is available at the MJHS website at  https://www.mjhs.org/healing/.                     Irit Felsen I will be leading a six-part discussion group, in the form of… READ MORE>>

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