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>>
Tag | Trauma
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
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>>
Impressions from Today’s Meeting of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
Posted by on February 14, 2019
Today’s program “The Fight for the Suffering Other” was the annual meeting of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health, and I had the great honor of moderating the discussion following the outstanding presentations by Dr. Spyros Orfanos from NYU and Dr. Cindy Veldhuis from Columbia University. The presenters addressed some of the most pressing and depressing… READ MORE>>
REMINDER: Thurs. Feb. 14/2019: Meeting of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
Posted by on February 12, 2019
Presentation Date: 02/14/19
Location: United Nations, NYC
As co-chair of the Trauma working group in the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations, I have planned the annual Trauma group program scheduled for… 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>>