Family Treasures Lost and Found
I am an advisor to a film that was just completed titled Family Treasures: Lost and Found, directed by Marcia Rock and produced by Karen A. Frankel. About the Film Journalist Karen A. Frenkel wanted to understand her family history…
A Pocketful of Miracles Film: 2 Screenings in New York City
A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings 2 Screenings in New York City “One of the Best Films of 2023” –The Washington Post Museum of Jewish Heritage Sunday March 17th at 2PM In A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale…
Menachem Daum Obituary
Menachem Daum, 77, Filmmaker Who Explored the World of Hasidim, Dies: His acclaimed documentary “A Life Apart” presented a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable. Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997…
Trauma Guidance for Holocaust Survivors and Caregivers
Text following is from an email sent from The Blue Card. Dear Friends, I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good health and safety. Since October 7, 2023, we have been devastated beyond belief and our…
The War in Israel: imparting information to our children
Our children are vulnerable. They need to be protected from so many of the horrors of the war, but they also need to be told what is happening in the war in Israel in a way that is honest but…
Gender as a Dynamic in Women Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
I will be presenting at the Women in the Holocaust: International Scientific Conference. 10 – 12 Oct 2023. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory- Kraljice Natalije 45, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. The Conference is presented by WHISC – Women in the…
Book Review | The Baggage You Can’t Leave Behind
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory By Janet Malcolm Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176 pp. Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile By Maxim D. Shrayer Cherry Orchard Books, 146 pp. Daughter of History: Traces of an…
Dr. Giselle Cycowicz and Dedicating Your Life to Others After Trauma
The Blue Card Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma is honored to welcome Dr. Gita Cycowicz, from Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Cycowicz is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and labor camps at Gross-Rosen. Originally from Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, which…
The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is protected speech. As the children of Holocaust survivors, we understand where this leads
This article is re-posted from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Government-sanctioned bigotry is a first step towards dehumanization, write two Second Generation activists (JTA) — When the U.S. Supreme Court sided last month with a Colorado web designer who refuses…
Breaking the Silence Around Sexual Violence
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Wagner College Holocaust Center took on a topic with very contemporary resonance: sexual assault. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The January…
Saviors at Nazi Ground Zero
Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” introduced the world to the improbable enigma and moral dilemma of a German Nazi Party member who rescued Jews. The combined commercial forces of Spielberg and the Hollywood image-making machine turned Oskar Schindler into a larger-than-life…
The Jacket from Dachau
The Jacket from Dachau:One Survivor’s Search for Justice, Identity, and Home In July of 2015, The Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) was contacted by a vintage clothing dealer about a recent acquisition of a unique garment at an…
“Whispers of Silence” (“Murmullos del Silencio”)
Eva Fogelman served as a trauma expert consultant to filmmakers Aarón and Esther Cohen for this film about Holocaust trauma and its’ transmission. May 1945. World War II ends and the concentration camps are liberated. Thousands of Holocaust survivors are…
Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma
The Blue Card is thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma. We invite you to join us in listening to the incredible story of Professor Laszlo Adler, Holocaust survivor, esteemed professor,…
Conscience and Courage Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust Cantata by Liz Swados
My dear friend Liz Swados who died too young wrote the lyrics and music for a Conscience and Courage Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust Cantata based on my book with the same title. The Cantata was preformed at the…
Holocaust Survivor Families Reflect A Generation After 9/11
On a brilliant blue Tuesday in September 2001, the impervious nature of America was shattered irrevocably. The trauma of 9/11 was in some cases multiplied exponentially for Holocaust survivors and their descendants, as in the case of Victor Wald. Victor…
Hidden by the Holocaust as young children…
Hidden by the Holocaust as young children, they escaped the Nazis by disappearing into attics and basements. Now, these last survivors are coming forward to reclaim a childhood lost. “These individuals had to grow up overnight,” she says. “Many of…
Altruism Can Be Learned
Learned altruistic behavior, seeing all people as equals, gave the rescuers the ability to transcend the propaganda against the Jews and to see them as human beings just like themselves. Eva Fogelman Most Germans during the Nazi era weren’t executioners….
Who is considered a Holocaust survivor?
My parents were both Polish Jews and survived the Holocaust through twists of fate that saved them from the horrors of the Nazi death camps. My father escaped from a ghetto in Belarus to the untamed forest, where he joined…
Stories of Regeneration from the Second Generation: Eva Fogelman
Eva Fogelman, psychologist, author, filmmaker, and co-director of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, shares her experiences growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors.
As a Holocaust scholar and child of survivors, I’m horrified that a bigot may lead Yad Vashem
The opposition is mounting to the prospect of Effi Eitam, a former far-right Israeli politician and general, becoming chair of Israel’s national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. Among those urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change course are Israeli Holocaust survivors,…
For Survivor Descendants, the Past is Prologue
When I see the long lines at the supermarket, I am reminded of my mother telling me about standing in line all night to get a loaf of bread for her parents and four siblings during their escape east on…
Eva Fogelman on the Charney Report
Katharina von Munster, Eva Fogelman, David Scott Paul | Charney Report. 20 Jan 2016. YouTube. This episode features a discussion on psychology as it relates to Holocaust survivors and their families with guests Katharina von Munster, Communications Director of Action…
The pandemic has been emblematic of the human experience
The pandemic has been emblematic of the human experience. Some people are thriving, others are confronting stresses, and some are completely traumatized. One’s circumstances, of course, can either impede or enhance, the emotional state and capacity to cope. Like everyone…
Helping Holocaust Survivor’s Children
When the film I co-produced and wrote, Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust, was first broadcast on PBS in 1984, Michael Hinds wrote about the work I have done raising awareness for and empowering the voices of the…
Marion Pritchard, Holocaust hero
Under conditions of terror, most people are passive bystanders. Some become persecutors, while few jeopardize their lives to save the victims. Marion Pritchard, who died in December 2016 at the age of 96, risked her life. In the early 1980s,…
Remembering Henry Krystal, Pioneer in Trauma Therapy
In December 1976, thanks to my therapy experience with young adult children of Holocaust survivors, I found myself attending a workshop with Dr. Henry Krystal, the psychoanalyst who virtually created trauma therapy as a specialized field. I knew, of course,…
Appreciating Robert Jay Lifton
Letters to the Editor of Clio’s Psyche. Dear Editor, In 1976, along with a social worker, I started co-leading awareness groups for children of Holocaust survivors at Boston University. We were young mental-health professionals in our mid-20s whose family backgrounds…