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.