Book Review: Making Music Was The Best Revenge
My Effin’ Life By Geddy Lee with Daniel Richler HarperCollins Publishers, 511 pp. Reviewed by Eva Fogelman How does a son of Auschwitz survivors get a name such as Geddy Lee? So begins My Effin’ Life, …
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Antisemitism Influences Freud’s Jewish Identity
Review of Merle Molofsky’s (Ed.) Jew-Hating: The Black Milk of Civilization (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2022), ISBN: 978-1- 956864-35-9, 356 pages, paperback, $35. Written by Eva Fogelman, 2024. The current proliferation of expressions of antisemitism motivates …
They Carry the Torch: Life Affirming Legacies of Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
The Shalom Club presents: Dr. Eva Fogelman Traditionally, descendants of Holocaust survivors as a group have been viewed as irrevocably traumatized by what their parents suffered. Now psychologist Eva Fogelman PhD offers a different narrative, …
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 …
Gender as a Factor in Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
This paper was presented 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. See my blog post: Gender …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Descendants of the Holocaust Inherit Two Competing Stories
When my father died, Elie Wiesel came to my home to make a shiva call. The first question he asked, “Did your father write down his story?” This question continues to haunt me every day …
Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: from awareness to working through
I will present Myths and Realities about Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma on Sunday March 6, 2022 between 9:30 am and Noon. Myths and Realities about Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma by Eva Fogelman Abstract: Trauma has become so …
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 …
Group Belonging and Mourning as Factors in Resilience in the Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors
Historically, the marker event for the identifiability of children of survivors as a group was the seminal article in the New York Times by journalist Helen Epstein, herself a child of Holocaust survivors, on June …
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 …
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 …
Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors as Moral Voices in the American-Jewish Community
I am an adult child of Holocaust survivors born in a half bombed out hospital in Kassel, Germany. For me, the whole notion of the Holocaust evokes never ending questions about human beings who annihilate …
Holocaust Survivor Families: The Dynamics of Adaptation
“As a child of survivors and as a psychologist who has worked with survivors and their families for 40 years, I am fascinated in particular by the varied dynamics of adaptation that these families manifest” …
Holocaust Child Survivors, Sixty-Five Years After Liberation: From Mourning to Creativity
Most of the world does not contemplate children as survivors of the Holocaust; surely it is understandable why this is the case. After all, the image that most have is that of Jews spilling out …
Third Generation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
“Why are Holocaust survivors obsessed with future generations remembering? Why do they command us all to Zachor, to remember? What is it they want us to remember?” That is the challenge every post-Holocaust generation will …
The Evolution of a Second-Generation of Holocaust Survivor Identity
In the late 1960s, Henry Krystal, a psychoanalyst and Auschwitz survivor, organized several conferences for doctors, social-service providers, and German government officials on the after-effects of “massive psychic trauma” on survivors of Nazi concentration camps …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust
In 1978, Fogelman was leading a group for children of Holocaust survivors with Dr. Henry Grunebaum in Cambridge, MA, which became the subject of Breaking the Silence. The film portrays a number of survivor parents …
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Conscience and Courage examines the psychological transformation of a bystander to a rescuer through compelling accounts drawn from interviews with survivors of the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe in WW II. Once …
The Rescuer Self
Rescue of Jews under the Nazis was, in psychological parlance, a “rare behavior.” From a population of 700 million in Germany and the allied occupied countries, the thousands who risked their lives to save Jews …
About Dr. Fogelman
I am a licensed psychologist, author and filmmaker. I am also a pioneer in developing groups for generations of the Holocaust. I co-founded and co-directed the first training program for clinicians to study Psychotherapy with …
A Holocaust Survivor Infuses Meaning Into His Art
The Center for Contemporary Political Art will be hosting a fascinating lecture on ZOOM this Sunday, April 26th at 8pm (EST). Dr. Eva Fogelman will discuss the importance and meaning of Boris Lurie’s art—to him, …