Eva Fogelman, PhD

Love & Sex Across Holocaust Generations
2021-05-05 13:00 - 13:45 (America/New_York)
Featured Keynote SpeakersLove & Sex Across Holocaust GenerationsWith Dr. Eva Fogelman & Esther Perel

May 5, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm EDTFind out how past traumatic experiences affect new intimate relations from therapists experienced in working with Holocaust families. ​

Esther Perel

Eva Fogelman

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May 4-9, 2021

Virtual. Worldwide. Free.

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Founders of the Second Generation Movement
2021-05-06 17:00 (America/New_York) | Liberation75
A panel with Helen Epstein, Dr. Eva Fogelman, Menachem Rosensaft moderated by Kati Marton.
Thursday May 6, 5pm -5:45pm ET.
Join us for a once in a lifetime event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust.
May 4 – 9 2021.
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Other Voices: Daughters of the Holocaust
2021-06-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Miami, Florida
The University of Miami School of Education & Human Development and The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation together with The Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Division of Academics, Department of Social Sciences presented the 20th Anniversary Holocaust Teacher Institute June 13th – 15th, 2021, online via Zoom. Funded in part by the Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education.
Presenters:
Dr. Eva Fogelman – 2G, Author, Psychologist
Mrs. Ellen Bachner Greenberg – Co-Founder of 2G Greater New York
Mrs. Liz Schonfeld, 2G, Film Producer
Mrs. Marilyn Sinclair – 2g, Founder of Liberation 75
The panel, Other Voices: Daughters of the Holocaust, was moderated by Dr. Klein Kassenoff founding director of the University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute. She is also the Education Chairperson at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida, and the Education Specialist for Holocaust Studies for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Dr. Kassenoff asked the panelists when they became aware of their identity as children of survivors, when they decided to do with this new identity, and what memento they carry with them from their mother and father. The participants who are leaders in their respective communities felt that this was an opportunity for them to be in touch with their personal motivation to do what they are doing to raise Holocaust and genocide consciousness, to educate the next generation to make a difference in the world.

Holocaust Survivor. Nazi Hunter. Wall Street Tycoon: The Siggi Wilzig Story
2021-06-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Jewish Heritage
Discover the remarkable true story of Auschwitz survivor, Wall Street legend, and philanthropist Siegbert (Siggi) B. Wilzig in this exclusive program for members.
Wilzig’s story is the basis of author and Holocaust scholar Joshua M. Greene’s recent book, Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend.
Museum of Jewish Heritage members are invited to join Greene and Wilzig’s son, Ivan Wilzig, for an intimate look at the life and legacy of Siggi Wilzig. This program will be moderated by Dr. Eva Fogelman, Pulitzer-prize nominated author, filmmaker, and psychologist who specializes in therapeutic techniques to treat generations of Holocaust survivors and related traumas.
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After surviving the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps—and volunteering for the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps to track former SS—Siegbert (Siggi) B. Wilzig arrived in America in 1947 with little money and only a grade school education. At the time of his death in 2003, he had created an empire in oil and banking with more than $4 billion in assets. Wilzig later became a lecturer on Holocaust remembrance, an outspoken opponent of Holocaust denial, and was instrumental in building the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
See also:

Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing BiographySiggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Holocaust Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend. Visit the website to Order the Book.

‘Never give in to despair’Siggi Wilzig’s children and his biographer remember the survivor, oilman, and banker

Women Resistance Fighters during the Holocaust
2021-06-29 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Moment Magazine
Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos will discuss the young women who found different ways of fighting back against the Nazis, with filmmaker Aviva Kempner, who produced and conceived of the film Partisans of Vilna: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during World War II. The program will be moderated by psychologist Dr. Eva Fogelman, a pioneer in the treatment of psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants.

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Watch the video here:

Women Resistance Fighters during the Holocaust with Judy Batalion, Aviva Kempner and Eva Fogelman

2021 Rosen Summer Symposium on Children in the Holocaust
2021-07-20 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies will hold the 19th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium from July 18-23, 2021. The 19th Symposium will focus on Children in the Holocaust. The language of instruction is English. Originally scheduled for 2020, but postponed during the first wave of the pandemic, the 2021 symposium will take place online. Many of the symposium’s participants, audience members, and speakers belong to a high-risk group for COVID-19 and it has always been the Center’s priority to keep everyone safe. Far too many Holocaust survivors have, sadly, died from the virus in recent months.

To register for the public symposium programs on ZOOM, click here(One registration covers all public ZOOM events of the week, beginning with Prof. Michael Berenbaum’s keynote lecture on Sunday).

The online platform will allow us to easily connect to teachers, researchers and audiences in the High Country, US, Europe, Israel and elsewhere and also explore relevant Memorials and Centers. Participating teachers will have the opportunity to learn from and converse with, among others, Prof. Deborah Dwork (Clark University), Prof. Gabriel Finder (UVA), Dr. Eva Fogelman (Florida), and Dr. Patricia Heberer-Rice, the Senior Historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as other accomplished Holocaust educators and scholars from the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Participants viewed the pre-recorded lecture by Dr. Fogelman and discussed it on July 20. Public Discussion: Children During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath.

From the Appalachian State University website: This video is a pre-recorded presentation by Eva Fogelman, PhD, entitled “Children During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath.” A psychologist in private practice in NYC, Fogelman is the co-director of Child Development Research and has, among others, carried out pioneering clinical work to heal the second generation as well as Holocaust child and adult survivors and their families.

Moreover, several child survivors of the Shoah such as Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (University of Miami), herself an accomplished educator, and of the Rwandan genocide will give testimony. Participating teacher-participants will learn and analyze how the Nazi regime sought to indoctrinate Gentile children and turn them into supporters of their regime. They will also examine how persecuted Jewish children tried to cope with persecution and, eventually, outright genocidal onslaughts. The presentations and assigned materials will shed new light on children’s complex challenges and struggles under Nazi rule and occupation, in the ghettos and even camps as well as many’s resilience and despair.

Since 2002, the Center has organized and held the annual Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium “Remembering the Holocaust.” Named for symposium benefactors, the late Doris and Martin Rosen, the symposium endeavors to provide teachers with the most current research on the Holocaust, racism, and anti-Semitism in tandem with teaching strategies and plans needed by every educator to tackle this urgent topic in an informed and successful manner in a classroom setting. During this time, close to 700 educators from North Carolina, the U.S., Canada, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and the Baltic states have attended the symposium. In recent years, the Center has cooperated with the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Echoes and Reflections, and the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. The symposium faculty comes from across the U.S., Canada, Israel, Africa, and Europe.

In addition to educators, the symposium is also geared toward students and community members. It is free and many events are open to the public. Access information to the ZOOM-based event will be made available in late June/early July.

The purpose and goal of the Symposium is to provide public and private school teachers, university faculty, students, and community members information and insights about the victims, perpetrators, and consequences of the Nazi Holocaust.

The Symposium provides approximately 40 hours of lectures, workshops, discussions, films, and demonstrations. Teachers who complete all 40 hours receive four CEUs.

The symposium includes:

workshops
discussions
lectures by internationally recognized speakers
Nazi Holocaust survivor testimony
four continuing education credits for teachers

Transforming Moments: A Conversation With Diane Von Furstenberg
2021-12-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Jewish Heritage
Zoom Event. December 9, 2021. Transforming Moments: A Conversation With Diane Von Furstenberg

Before she was an international fashion icon and a member of the TIME 100, Diane von Furstenberg was a young girl growing up with parents who had just survived the Holocaust. Her father, originally from Moldova, escaped the Nazis in Switzerland. Her mother, originally from Greece, fought the Nazis as a member of the resistance until she was captured and sent to Auschwitz.
Join the Museum for a conversation with von Furstenberg about her identity as the daughter of survivors and how it has informed her remarkable career at the helm of one of the world’s most recognizable brands. She will be in conversation with Dr. Eva Fogelman, renowned psychologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.
This program is co-presented by the Museum and Descendants of Holocaust Survivors (2G Greater New York).
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this one. We thank you for your support.
Live closed captions will be available during this program.
Public programming at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy C. Hochul and the New York State Legislature; a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act; and other generous donors.

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Zaglada - performed reading of a new play by Richard Vetere
2022-02-10 19:00 (America/New_York)
Zaglada – performed reading of a new play by Richard Vetere

New York City – In Person

The Kosciuszko Foundation invites you to a performed reading of

Zagłada (Holocaust)

A new play by Richard Vetere

featuring:

Jon Avner, Jennean Farmer, Iza Laskowska, Lou Martini, Jr. & Maja Wampuszyc

directed by

Alice Jankell

Original music compositions by Rick Baitz

A discussion moderated by Dr. Eva Fogelman will follow the presentation

The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th Street, New York, NY 10065

Space is limited. Registration is required. Free and open to the public. In lieu of admission, a $15 donation towards the Kosciuszko Foundation is appreciated. Proof of vaccination is needed to enter.

Zagłada is about a 90-year-old Polish man living in Maspeth, Queens, who is exposed by an African-American journalist as having been a Kapo in Buchenwald. The man shoots at the journalist, is arrested for firing an illegal firearm, and is held at the 112th Precinct by an NYPD Intelligence Bureau Officer. There he is forced to confront his past by a Federal Prosecutor who is driven by a personal vendetta.

Jewish in America: Shattered Safety with Increased Antisemitism
2022-02-22 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
The hostage situation at a synagogue in Colleyvilles, TX is the latest reminder of the increased antisemitism found in the United States today. Throughout the country, many Jews are fearful that they themselves or their communities might become the target of this virulent hate.

Eva Fogelman – Ira Forman. Photo provided.
Moment Institute Senior Fellow Ira Forman and former U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, will be in conversation with noted psychologist and PTSD expert Eva Fogelman, about how Jews can feel safe in America.

This program is part of a Moment series on antisemitism supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3216446768106/WN_vwkgohu8Qb6BBBwwKUzPhg

From Moment Magazine:

The Antisemitism Monitor reports antisemitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis.View incidents from 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018.

Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: from awareness to working through
2022-03-06 09:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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 commonplace that it has lost its original meaning, which in broad terms means experiencing a situation that is impossible to cope with and withstand. And, what exactly is being transmitted to the next generation is also so generalized, which has come to imply that descendants of trauma survivors are also traumatized. This presentation will explore the consequences of growing with Holocaust survivor parents. What distinguishes this population from their peers whose parents were not survivors? Who among the second generation of Holocaust survivors are truly traumatized.

Read about Dr. Eva Fogelman on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fogelman

Learning points:At the end of this educational activity, its participants will be able to:

Compare intergenerational effects of growing up with Holocaust survivor parents with other kinds of trauma.Analyzeresearch projects that are valid and reliable to account for intergenerational consequences of trauma.Discusshow the Holocaust trauma reverberates in the lives of the descendants of the survivors.Utilize a template in working with descendants of various historically traumatized patients that is offered by Dr. Fogelman.

Description: Virtual Conference on Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma and Parent-Child Development

In a dark time, the eye begins to see… — Theodore RoethkeNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin

This conference is a follow-up of our first conference on transgenerational transmission of trauma and parent-child relationships, entitled “Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller?” — based on a documentary with the same title. Here is the webpage of the conference: https://events.orinyc.org/alice/.

During that conference in December 2021, we watched the documentary by Daniel Howald, “Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller?” that received the 2021 Gradiva Award® for the best film from NAAP, and had a presentation by and a discussion with Martin Miller, Alice Miller’s son, who became a psychologist and who – after many years of various therapies and analysis – is working with children and adults to overcome childhood trauma, and transgenerational trauma too. There were other presentations done by members of various working groups and organizations dealing with parent-child relationships, childhood trauma, and now transgenerational trauma,

During this March 2022 conference, we will discuss various topics related to inter- and transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience, which will include personal discoveries of family’s patterns of communication as they relate to traumas of past generations; and experiences of groups that were denigrated by corruption and despotism of the leaders or/and aggression from other groups. We will also look into neurobiological vicissitudes of the modes of inter- and transgenerational transmission of information, as well as how we can prevent the traumatic transmission and promote transmission of hope, resilience, strength, and healing.

Our speakers/panelists are: Martin Miller, David Celani, Marc-Andre Cotton, Doris Leicher, Gabriella Becchina, Eva Fogelman, Peter Petschauer, Amy C. Hudnell, Jun Lu, and Inna Rozentsvit. During each of two days, there will be time for questions and answers with each presenter and general discussion.

Sponsored by the Office of Postgraduate Professionals Development Programs of St. John’s University Psychology Department, the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the IPA’s Working Groups on Parenting & Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, & Parents First!™ Educational Network

When: March 5th, 2022 (Saturday) & March 6th, 2022 (Sunday)On both days: 9:30 am — 3:00 pm EST (NYC time)

Location: Virtual participation only!Virtual participation is conducted via audio/video or audio mode only (with minimal technical requirements)

To Register for this workshop, please complete the registration form here:https://events.orinyc.org/transgenerational-transmission-of-trauma-and-resilience-from-awareness-to-working-through/#registration

REGISTRATION AND FEES:

Regular registration (by March 4, 2022)$40 regular/ $20 grad students, candidates, retired/ FREE for undergrad students.Please Note: If CEs are requested — there is an additional fee of $25 — for APA, NYS SW, NYS PsyA/ or $30 — for NYS Psy (can be paid on the day of the conference or in advance).

Registration ‘at the door’ (on March 5th & March 6th, 2022)$50 regular/ $30 grad students, candidates, retired/ FREE for undergrad students.Please Note: If CEs are requested — there is an additional fee of $25 — for APA, NYS SW, NYS PsyA/ or $30 — for NYS Psy (can be paid on the day of the conference or in advance).

N.B.: If you are requesting the CEs, please register as a licensed practitioner and pay the “regular” fee for attending this workshop.

SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for retired or disabled practitioners, need-based or/and those who live outside of USA.

You can request scholarship using this formhttps://events.orinyc.org/transgenerational-transmission-of-trauma-and-resilience-from-awareness-to-working-through/#ipt-fsqm-popup-form-42

Be Empowered: Ways To Confront Antisemitism
2022-06-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Our April 5th Next Generations Group(NGG) get-together featured Bob Horenstein, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, who spoke about the rise in antisemitism and touched on ways to respond to it. Afterwards, there was a palpable desire from participants to continue the conversation, especially for a deeper discussion on how we as individuals are effected and how we can make a difference.
Dr. Fogelman states: With the rise of antisemitic incidents in the United States and elsewhere, Jews are feeling more vulnerable than they have for more than three generations after the Holocaust. What differentiates antisemitism from Jewish security? What do the latest PEW study data teach us about Jewish reaction to antisemitism?
Dr. Fogelman’s presentation, along with a participatory discussion, focused on different ways we can respond to verbal antisemitic attacks, depending on the perpetrator and the situation. We learned about ways to confront antisemitic remarks, and how to prepare our children to respond to being verbally or physically attacked as a Jew, among other topics.
Sue Wendel and Diana who coordinated the evening said:
Oregon Holocaust Memorial
“We have all been touched, hurt and angered by antisemitism on many levels, and we gained a deeper understanding about its effects, as well as how we can respond to it using ‘pocket responses’.” She added, “Dr. Fogelman’s presentation and discussion covered a variety of issues from the societal and community levels, on college campuses, to how to respond during a conversation.”
“I was fortunate to meet Dr. Fogelman at a Zoom conference recently, and she graciously had accepted my invitation to speak to our group. Thank you Eva, again.”
Diana adds: “Thank you for your information and discussion. The pocket responses help to engage those who may not know what they are saying and bring a bit of encouragement to those of us who have encountered these kinds of people in the past and now know we don’t have to stand by and ‘take it’”.

“The Flat” Screening and Discussion
2022-08-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Flat, a film by Arnon Goldfinger

After the death of his grandmother Gerda, director Arnon Goldfinger was responsible for emptying out the Tel Aviv apartment where she lived for seventy years since she and her husband fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Goldfinger made a startling discovery while sorting through pictures, files, and letters: his grandparents had a close relationship with Leopold von Mildenstein, the head of the department for Jewish affairs in the SS.

Goldfinger’s film The Flat tells the story of this discovery and interrogates what it means to uncover family secrets, a feeling all-too-familiar to many in the Second and Third generation. Join the Museum for a screening of the film, along with a discussion featuring Goldfinger and Dr. Eva Fogelman, renowned psychologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Attendees will receive a private link to view the film.

Arnon Goldfinger is an Israeli film director and scriptwriter. He is the winner of two Israeli Academy Awards, for his films The Komediant and The Flat. He is also a professor at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches the master class of documentary filmmaking.

Dr. Eva Fogelman is a licensed psychologist, author, filmmaker. She is a founder of the Second Generation movement as well as the Hidden Child Foundation. Fogelman wrote and co-produced the award-winning film Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust and is author of the Pulitzer Prize nominee, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.

A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this one.

“Researchers Remember” Book Talk
2022-09-06 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Museum of Jewish Heritage
Researchers Remember

For descendants of Holocaust survivors who became researchers and scholars, whether they devoted their professional lives to the Holocaust or to other topics, the Holocaust often accompanies their professional lives like a shadow.

The new book Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory for Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, discusses this phenomenon through the stories of 30 researchers, children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. It is the first book of its kind, and the Museum is pleased to host a round table discussion and book talk with editors and contributors.

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. Photo by John Halpern/courtesy of The Museum of Jewish Heritage

Presented by Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Shmuel Refael, editors of Researchers Remember. Together with Jacqueline Heller, Dan Carter, Dorota Glowacka, Sam Juni, Abraham J. Peck, Liat Steir-Livny, Zehavit Gross, and Eva Fogelman, they will discuss how their parents’ or grandparents’ Holocaust experiences affected their personal and professional trajectories.

Prof. Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, and a historian-curator for the exhibition The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do.

Prof. Shmuel Refael is the Director of the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively about the Sephardim and the Holocaust and about the representation of the Holocaust in Ladino poetry.

Dr. Jacqueline Heller is a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who recently retired from her private practice. She was on the clinical faculty at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor where she taught, mentored, and supervised for 30 years. She has been writing a forthcoming book, Yesterday Never Sleeps, which should be published next year.

Prof. Dan Carter is the Director of the Neurograstroenterology and Pelvic Floor Clinic at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and a Clinical Associate Professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University.

Prof. Dorota Glowacka is Professor of Humanities and Director of Contemporary Studies Program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada.

Prof. Sam Juni is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He founded and directed the Psychology Graduate Program at NYU Tel Aviv for close to a decade and is currently in private practice in Jerusalem.

Prof. Abraham J. Peck is Research Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine and a lecturer at Bates College.

Prof. Liat Steir-Livny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Creation and Production at Sapir College and a tutor and course coordinator at the Open University of Israel.

Prof. Zehavit Gross is the Director of the Sal Van Gelder Center for Holocaust Research and Instruction; the incumbent of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance, and Peace; and the Dean Elect of the Faculty of Education at Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. She is co-editor of several books on the psychological and historical perspective on children during the Nazi reign and its aftermath. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust (PBS).

See also:

Jordan Hoffman. What Hate Can Do: inside a devastating new exhibition on the Holocaust. 16 Jul 2022. The Guardian.— https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/15/what-hate-can-do-holocaust-exhibition-new

Book Launch-The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community
2022-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Arnold and Leona Finkler Holocaust Research Institute, Bar-Ilan University
in Hebrew

Panel discussion about the book- The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community

On the 84th anniversary of “Crystal Night” we are honored to invite you to the launch event of the book edited by Prof. Judy Midor Baumel-Schwartz, preface by Eva Fogelman, : Generations of the Holocaust: Invisible to visible Identity and Community

Sponsored by Shoah Research Center at Bar Ilan University and The Arnold and Leona Meukler Holocaust Research Institute.

Participants

Dr. Olga Goldin, director of the library and information system,Bar-Ilan University Welcomewords :Prof. Shmuel Raphael, dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies,Bar-Ilan UniversityAbout the book :Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz, head of the Research Institute The Holocaust by Arnold and Leona Finkler, Bar-Ilan UniversityRound table discussion: “The second generation” in Meshhat: the discussion group of the descendants of the survivorsChair: Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz, head of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Holocaust Research Institute, Bar-Ilan UniversityParticipants :Prof. Motti Neiger, School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University Dr. Ruth Samuel Tannenholz, Spiegel Fellow, Holocaust Research Institute S. Finkler, Bar-Ilan UniversityMartin Hershkowitz, head of the Steinmetz-Hershkowitz Foundation, and Amit Spiegel, the Finkler Holocaust Research Institute, Bar-Ilan UniversityDr. Eva Fogelman , psychologist and author

Last update date: 10/19/2022

Who Will Speak for Them?
2023-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
A gathering for Second Generation (2G) & Third Generation (3G) Holocaust survivors

Click to email Elise at Shalom Connecticut

Presented by Holocaust Child Survivors Of Connecticut, Inc.

Join us for brunch and conversation with

DR. EVA FOGELMAN

Sunday, Jan. 15 | 12 noon

Held at Chabad of Westport

79 Newtown Tpk., Westport, CT

Eva Fogelman, PhD is a 2G, a psychologist, and a pioneer in developing groups for 2G and 3G descendants of Holocaust survivors.

She is a world-renowned speaker and an award-winning author and filmmaker (Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust).

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust
2023-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and the Faculty of Jewish Studies invites you to a Book Launch.

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust: Between Postmemory and Postmemorial Work

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust: Between Postmemory and Postmemorial WorkRony Alfandary and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, eds., Routledge, 2023

On Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 9am ESTThe Event will take place on Zoomhttps://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/5990873417

Video of Zoom

Bar-Ilan University Holocaust Institute. Book Launch of Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust. 9 May 2023. YouTube.

Schedule Israel Daylight Time (IDT):

16:00 Greetings: Prof. Shmuel Refael, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Rony Alfandary, School of Social Work, University of Haifa

Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Director, Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University

16:10 Dr. Eva Fogelman, Psychologist, Author, Memory, Postmemory, and the Second Generation

16:20 Round table discussion: Between Postmemory and Postmemorial Work

Moderator: Dr. Rony Alfandary

Participants:
Michelle Lisses-Topaz, Open University of Israel
Dr. Naomi Shmuel, Spiegel Fellow, Finkler Institute, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Naama Reshef, Kaye Academic College

17:10 Questions & Answers

17:20 Closing Remarks – Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz

Stanley Milgram @ 90: What is his legacy?
2023-10-31 19:15 (America/New_York) | Fordham University, 113 W. 60 St., New York, New York, 10023, United States
Ninety years after the birth of Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), what is the legacy of this unique researcher, teacher, and essayist?

I spoke at this event. Here is what I said:

Stanley Milgram ReminiscencesEva Fogelman, PhD

October 31, New York City

I can’t help but wonder what Stanley Milgram might think watching on television in his living room, the barbaric massacre of 1,400 Israelis living in Kibbutzim on the Gaza border, and the kidnapping of 239 Israeli hostages. He probably would not be surprised about the Hamas terrorists who were following orders from their leaders, orders which were found in their pockets after their death. An added plus was a $10,000 reward and an apartment for every Israeli hostage.

Of all people, Stanley would understand the human instinct to obey authority. We all know that Stanley is best known for his experiment on Obedience to Authority for which he was criticized in more than one thousand articles.

The Stanley I knew was generous of spirit and had a great joie de vivre.I connect Stanley to Israel because that is where I first met him in 1978. He was a keynote speaker at a social science academic conference in Jerusalem, where I was presenting a paper on the impact of the Holocaust on second generation of survivors. Today, such academic exchange is commonplace. But forty-five years ago, such a visit by a prominent scholar, was accompanied by the kind of hoopla press that Lady Gaga enjoys today.

Stanley also took a great interest in a film I was writing and producing on children of Holocaust survivors. He gave me a piece of advice. He believed that you can reach more people with film than any other medium. However, he said, “When most people watch a film, they can only take in one idea.”

He asked me, what is the end goal? I took that question to heart, not just in my professional world but in my personal life. If you have children, if you are in a relationship, struggling in a job, or in a war, what is your end goal and how do you get there?

Stanley helped us toss around a few ideas, and we decided on a title, “Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust.”

Stanley made social psychology come alive. He did not just teach facts and research methods, but rather, he taught students how to think, how to be creative, and how to make the study of human behavior in different situations interesting and fun, but sometimes, painful.

Stanley knew how to make ideas come alive. When my colleague Valerie Weiner and I were to present the results of our independent study of why non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, Stanley encouraged us not to simply present results. Rather, we simulated what our fellow classmates would do if African-Americans were threatened of a death sentence in the United States and anyone who tried to help them would be killed. There is no better way to understand psychological concepts than to vicariously experience what it would be like to be in someone else’s shoes.Stanley Milgram took an interest in the lives and projects of his students, and did whatever he could to help move the process to finishing products. When I encountered problems with my co-producer, Stanley spent a considerable amount of time to strategize how to resolve the conflict.

I’ll never forget the time he took off a lunch hour to sit and craft a query letter to Psychology Today for Valerie Wiener and me to suggest an article about our preliminary findings about rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Of course, the editor responded to an idea that Stanley suggested, and it was quite thrilling as a graduate student to have an article published in Psychology Today.

As I said, Stanley did not just stand and teach in front of the classroom. He created a caring community in the social and personality psychology department. He took brown-bag lunches seriously. He was always there whether a student was presenting, or an important scholar from the outside or from the Graduate Center. Christmas parties were not just an opportunity to drink and munch on goodies. There had to be food for the mind, the ears, the eyes, not just for taste and smell. Skits were prepared to highlight important events in the department and how life in the department interfaced with real world events. Without Stanley, the Christmas party was never the same.My husband, Jerome Chanes, never had the opportunity to meet Stanley; but it is as if he knows him, and Stanley is sometimes with us in spirit. When we go to the theater or some other public events, we sometimes ask each other: “What would Stanley say about this crowd?”

Stanley Milgram was committed to understanding ethical problems. He believed in those things that would make people act ethically. He did not believe in torture. How ironic it is that in the public mind he is associated with torture, rather than, with ethical behavior. The reaction to Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Studies is not surprising. After World War II, researchers were rationalizing Germany’s annihilation of the Jews, rather than focusing on the evil that was perpetrated. Victims who survived were blamed for survival. He or she must have done something devious in order to survive. Stanley is blamed for having forced people to confront their own evil instincts, and so they blame him for their own uneasiness with themselves.

In 1985, when I returned from showing my film at the Berlin Film Festival, a few days had passed, and I did not get a chance to have a conversation with Stanley about the trip. He called me to set up a time to discuss my adventures because he said, “a trip needs to be discussed before time goes by.” I immediately went to see him.Later that year, I went to Stanley’s office, and he enthusiastically approved my proposal for my doctoral dissertation. This time and to my lasting regret Stanley died before he would see the end result, which also culminated in a published book.Were Stanley here he would ask Israel the same question he asked me. What is the end goal and how do you plan to get there? He would expect Israel to have in advance a strategy for governance of Gaza after Hamas is ousted. He believed that there should be a logical conclusion to whatever you set out to do whether it was a film, a research project or a war.

I would like to end with Stanley’s favorite song, and now mine too.The whole world is a very narrow bridge; but most important is not to fear at all.Please join me.

kol haholam kulo, gesher tzar mehod, v’ahikar v’hahikar lo l’fached klal.

Eva Fogelman and Harold Takooshian, Fordham University, Stanley Milgram @ 90

American social psychologist Stanley Milgram with the “shock generator” used in his famous experiment at Yale University in the 1960s. By permission of the estate of Alexandra Milgram. Encyclopedia Brittanica.

This forum brings together Milgram’s students and colleagues to share diverse aspects of his impact on society.

When and Where?

Tuesday, 31 October 2023, 7:15-8:45 pm, Fordham at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60 St., room 1020

This forum is hosted by Fordham University, in cooperation with Manhattan Psychological Association, and APA Division of Social Issues, www.spssi.org/ For any details: takoosh@aol.com

Panelists on Stanley Milgram as an inspired scholar: David M. Mantell & Fredda Mantell (obedience), Eugen Tarnow (obedience), Kurt T. Brintzenhofe (queues) Kevin Corti (Cyranoids), Philip G. Zimbardo (by video) Panelists on Stanley Milgram as an inspiring teacher: (invited) Elaine H. Olaoye, Kathryn Hahner, Eva Fogelman, Pearl Beck, Bethamie Horowitz, Harold Takooshian.

Experimenter – Official Trailer

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continues to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.

Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing

The Experimenter

Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story is a 2015 American biographical drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, based on the 1961 Milgram experiment. The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Taryn Manning, Kellan Lutz, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Lori Singer, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, and Jim Gaffigan.

Plot

The film is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers. In the first half of the film, it is shown how the experiments are conducted, with nearly every test subject succumbing to the pressure of the circumstances and administering shocks to a stranger, despite the stranger begging him to stop. Between the experiments, it is shown how Milgram meets Alexandra (or Sasha), who will become his wife and mother of two children.

The second half of the film shows how Milgram struggles with the public outcry about the ethics of the experiments and how his career advances as he becomes a professor in New York City and continues to study social interactions and social pressure in more benign experimental settings, including the small-world experiment, the lost-letter experiment, the street-corner (or gawking) experiment, the familiar stranger experiment, and various experiments that he makes his students carry out.

Archive footage occurs frequently, either as recordings that Milgram watches or as a backdrop for entire scenes. Milgram’s work continues until he dies from a heart attack at the age of 51. In the final scene, the street-corner experiment is repeated in the present day, with a cameo of the real-life Sasha Milgram. In a mid-credits scene, more archival footage is shown.

See also: The Tenth Level 1975 | William Shatner

1975 TV Movie starring William Shatner. Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research experiments, this movie chronicles a psychology professor’s study to determine why people, were willing to “just follow orders” and do horrible things to others.

They Carry the Torch: Life Affirming Legacies of Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
2023-11-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Four Seasons at Great Notch, 97 Quarry Dr, Woodland Park, New York, 07424, United States
The Shalom Club presents: Dr. Eva Fogelman

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, providing moving and life-affirming stories from the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

These stories, based on decades of interviews, show unequivocally that post-Holocaust generations are thriving today in spite of their tragic family history and the rise of antisemitism. They may carry scars, but they are transforming pain and loss into positive action and a commitment to Jewish culture and traditions, attesting to the resilience of the Jewish community.

The event is free. Coffee will be served following the program.

Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust
2023-11-30 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
In this webinar, Eva Fogelman (PhD) – a pioneer in working with generations of the Holocaust – provides an overview of the therapeutic approaches in work with survivors and descendants of the Shoah.

Registration for event: https://eveeno.com/353079271

Eva Fogelman is a psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. Her film Breaking the Silence: The Generation after the Holocaust won several awards. In numerous publications, Eva Fogelman emphasizes creativity as a resource for overcoming a traumatic experience.

The seminar is directed at practitioners working in this field with a focus on trans-generational after-effects as well as an interested public of experts.

The webinar will be held in English and translated into German.

AMCHA Event website

About AMCHA Deutschland

amcha comes from Hebrew and means: You are from us. It was also a code word for Jewish victims of the Shoah to recognize each other. The name thus expresses what AMCHA has stood for for over 30 years: recognition of suffering, solidarity with survivors, community to help.

Remember, but don’t forget the survivors. We have been supporting AMCHA Israel’s humanitarian aid and the public and professional discussion of the Holocaust, but also other collective experiences of violence, since 1988. We also advise and network stakeholders in these subject areas.

Lifetime Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory
2023-12-02 11:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom RSVP
Lifetime Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory

Presented by Psychohistory Forum to Distinguished Women Scholars

December 2, 2023, 11am-1:30pm EST (virtual room opens at 10:30am EST)

This is our 4th Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony at Psychohistory Forum, and it is the 1st one organized around women contributors to psychohistory, with a focus on women and feminist issues/approaches.

The recipients are Nancy Chodorow, Eva Fogelman, Carol Gilligan, and Nancy McWilliams. They were chosen because of their major achievements.

Nancy Chodorow, Eva Fogelman, Carol Gilligan, and Nancy McWilliams

Paul Elovitz, Director of Psychohistory Forum and Editor of Clio’s Psyche, will start the meeting with the introduction to the activities of the Psychohistory Forum (1982) and Clio’s Psyche (1994) for those who are unfamiliar with our scholarly ideals and with what we do to achieve them. We will show a short video collage of the prior Lifetime Achievement award meetings. Then, we will introduce a brief listing of distinguished women contributors who, had they been alive, would probably have been recipients of these Lifetime Achievement Awards.

The main part of this meeting will be dedicated to four incredible women, who will be presented by their colleagues/introducers (up to 10 min each), and then the awardees will respond/reflect on what was said, as well as about their psychohistorical influence and work, and the occasion in general (up to 10 min each):

Nancy Chodorow – introducer Jeffrey PragerEva Fogelman – introducer Peace SullivanCarol Gilligan – introducer Ruthellen JosselsonNancy McWilliams – introducer Jim Anderson

There will be plenty of time for a Q & A and general discussion.

Short biographies and introductory statements by the introducers of the awardees will be available here soon.

Inna Rozentsvit, Associate Director of the Psychohistory Forum and Associate Editor of Clio’s Psyche, will sum up the meeting and invite colleagues to join in our activities by becoming members of the Forum and writing for our journal.

As a follow-up to the Lifetime Achievement Award, Carol Gilligan’s Festschrift, to appear in the journal “Clio’s Psyche,” is now being planned. Festschrifts for other women are also a possibility. Colleagues, family members, and friends are invited to attend this virtual ceremony.

RSVP required to receive the Zoom link for the meeting: (click the link below)

4th Lifetime Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory Presented by Psychohistory Forum to Distinguished Women Scholars – Psychohistory Forum

or:

link: https://psychohistoryforum.com/4th-lifetime-achievement-awards-for-extraordinary-accomplishments-in-psychohistory-presented-by-psychohistory-forum-to-distinguished-women-scholars/

Direct questions to Inna Rosentsvit:

inna.rozentsvit@gmail.com

A Pocket Full of Miracles screening with talkback
2024-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (L2 Auditorium), 334 Amsterdam Ave, New York, New York, 10023, United States
A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings (2023 106 minutes) will be screened in Manhattan on Feb 17 and Feb 19 at the New Plaza Theater and at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (L2 Auditorium) on Feb 27 where I will be chairing a talkback panel with Aviva Kempner and 3rd generation of Holocaust survivors, Ciesla granddaughters Delaney Kempner and actress Sara Chase, in person. Click here to purchase tickets for the Feb 27 screening.

A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings is an intimate and powerful family memoir directed by Aviva Kempner. Focusing on the World War II stories of director Kempner’s mother, Hanka Ciesla, who passed as a Polish Catholic within Germany, and her uncle, Dudek Ciesla, who survived Auschwitz, this documentary traces their journey from an idyllic Jewish-Polish family life in Soseniewc, Poland, through the harrowing experiences they endured during the war.

The film showcases their remarkable resilience as they navigated the challenges of wartime, ultimately finding each other after liberation in Berlin and forging new lives in America. Through heartfelt interviews, archival footage, and personal accounts, A Pocketful of Miracles offers a poignant and inspiring exploration of their survival and the success stories they achieved in their respective fields. The documentary also includes the story of Aviva Kempner’s father, Harold Kempner, an immigrant who captured post-Holocaust stories in Berlin as a military government journalist.

Having had its European premiere at the Berlin Jewish Film Festival in June 2023, with Aviva Kempner and editor Lucia Fox-Shapiro in attendance, A Pocketful of Miracles holds a special place for Kempner as she returns to her birthplace to share this intimate film about her family. The festival premiere adds to the significance of this deeply personal and captivating documentary, which sheds light on the indomitable spirit of resilience, love, and triumph in the face of unimaginable adversity.

Pocketful of Miracles Theatrical Trailer (2023) from Aviva Kempner, edited by Lucia Fox-Shapiro on Vimeo.

A Pocketful of Miracles screening March 3 at the Katzen Arts Center
2024-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20016, United States
See Aviva Kempner’s New Documentary “A Pocketful of Miracles” – March 3 at the Katzen Arts Center at 4pm

Tickets are free but you must make a reservation

A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings. (provided)

Hanka and Dudek Ciesla grew up in a loving Jewish family in Poland. Their idyllic childhood was abruptly shattered when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. After their family is separated, Hanka passes as a Polish Catholic within Germany, and Dudek is sent to Auschwitz. Once they are liberated, Helen and David reunite as orphans and rebuild inspiring lives in America as abstract expressionist artist Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessman and philanthropist David Chase.

“A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings” Screening on Sunday, March 3rd at 4 pm

American University’s Abramson Family Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Aves. NW

Free Parking in the Katzen Center Garage.

MC: Dr. Eva Fogelman, consulting producer, will be in discussion with director Aviva Kempner and artists Micheline Klagsbrun, Dalya Luttwak, and Miriam Mörsel Nathan after the screening of the film.

The film showing is presented in conjunction with the American University Museum’s exhibition “Art and the Demands of Memory: Works by Second Generation Holocaust Survivors.”

Click HERE to watch the Theatrical Trailer.

Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Sponsored by Dr. Adam Schwartz and Brandywine Dental Team.

A Pocketful of Miracles screening at Cornell Cinema
2024-04-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca, New York, 14850, United States
A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings. (provided)

“A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings”

Free Screening at Cornell University April 10, 2024 at 7:00PM

Click HERE to Reserve Tickets

Listed as one of the Best Films of 2023 by “The Washington Post” and Winner of the Audience Prize for Best Documentary at the JxJ Film and Music Festival, “A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings” screens at Cornell University (616 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY 14853) on April 10, 2024 at 7:00PM

“If you want me to describe my life in a few words, then it’s a ‘pocketful of miracles’. Things that I really can’t explain.” This is how David Ciesla describes his life.

“A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings” is a family memoir focusing on the pre-war and wartime experiences of siblings Hanka Ciesla, who passed as a Polish Catholic within Germany, and Dudek Ciesla, who survived Auschwitz, and the story of Harold Kempner, who captured their reunion in Berlin as a military government journalist. Helen and David Ciesla’s life stories are indeed peppered with improbable coincidences and absurd strokes of luck, not to mention tales of remarkable fortitude and perseverance; similar to that of many Shoah survivors, and yet special and unique. Berlin-born filmmaker Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother’s and uncle’s lives before and during World War II, from their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland to their tearful reunion after surviving the Holocaust. This moving documentary ends by sharing the incredible lives they built in America as painter Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessperson and philanthropist David Chase and serves as a reminder of why it is so important to make films about the fate of those who survived.Filmmaker Aviva Kempner will join for Q&A after the film with Professor Elliot Shapiro, Senior Lecturer in the Knight Institute and the Knight Foundation Director of the Writing in the Majors program.Free admission. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.To reserve tickets: https://cinema.cornell.edu/pocketful-miracles-tale-two-siblings Film website: www.pocketfulofmiraclesfilm.org

Echoes of Children’s Survival: Opening the Kestenberg Archive Online
2024-04-18 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Dr. Sharon Kangisser-Cohen (Yad Vashem) in a Conversation with Dr. Eva Fogelman (Psychologist, Filmmaker and Author) | Echoes of Children’s Survival: Unveiling the Kestenberg Archive Online

In 1981, the late Dr. Judith and Milton Kestenberg started interviewing Holocaust Child Survivors. Today 1500 interviews have been digitized by the Oral History Division of Hebrew University (then under the directorship of Dr. Sharon Kangisser) and are now part of the Israel National Library. The upcoming event will be to open the archive online.

Kestenberg Archive, provided

Zoom Event Registration: https://leobaeck.org/upcoming-events/echoes-of-childrens-survival-unveiling-the-kestenberg-archive-online/?lang=en

The Book

Eva Fogelman (Editor), Sharon Kangisser Cohen (Editor), Dalia Ofer (Editor). Children in the Holocaust and its aftermath : historical and psychological studies of the Kestenberg Archive. Berghahn, New York, 2017.

Purchase book on Amazon

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this unique form of historical record.

Film Screening Panel - After: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Town & Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Join Town & Village Synagogue for a Wine & Cheese Sunday.

View the film at 1 pm and 3 pm group viewings of “After: Poetry Destroys Silence” at Cinema Village, located at 22 East 12th Street.

Tickets for the film and tickets for the Panel discussion are sold separately. Screenings of the film begin Nov 1 at Cinema Village. Please see the film before attending the panel discussion.

Then, join Town & Village Synagogue on Sunday Nov. 3, at 5 pm for a reception & panel discussion with the film makers:

Eva Fogelman, ModeratorRichard Kroehling, DirectorJanet R. Kirchheimer, Producer and poetCornelius Eady, Poet appearing in the film

Click here to purchase your tickets to see the film, screening November 1st through 7th at Cinema Village.

Click here to watch the trailer.

Lumen Productions is proud to present the US theatrical release of AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence, a film by Richard Kroehling. In AFTER, contemporary poets confront the Holocaust. In this dramatic hybrid documentary, with performances by Melissa Leo, Géza Röhrig, and Bo Corre, poets respond to the Holocaust and address the responsibility and necessity for art.

Every poem has its own story, main character(s), and point of view, with each acting as a short film that evokes a range of emotions in the viewer and weaves a narrative.The power of the words, performances, commentary, cinematic interpretations, sounds, and silences bring the poems to life on screen, offering a modern chronicle of poets examining history and the current day.

I am proud to have served on the Board of Advisors to the film, After: Poetry Destroys Silence.See my blog post about the film on this website.

A Pocketful of Miracles | Kristallnacht at HERC
2024-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Challenger Learning Center, 200 S. Duvall Street, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Aviva Kempner. Photo: Brian Guthrie

Join us for Kristallnacht Film!HERC is pleased to welcome filmmaker, director, and producer Aviva Kempner, who creates successful and critically-acclaimed documentaries about social justice.

In A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings, she chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II.

The mission of the Holocaust Education Resource Council works to build hope and silence all hate, including antisemitism, by providing instructional guidance, support and resources for educators who teach the history of the Holocaust, and other educational programs for the community at large.

A Pocketful of MiraclesMichael BerenbaumSurvivors’ Memoirs are often divided into three chapter Before, During and After and the story of the Ciesla family so beautifully told in Powerful of Miracles is no exception. Aviva Kempner, the award-winning filmmaker whose work ranges from the Partisans of Vilna to the Hank Greenberg Story, the Detroit Tiger slugger who came close to beating Babe Ruth iconic record of 60 home runs and who achieved the enduring admiration of his fellow Jews for sitting out a Yom Kippur game, gets most deeply personal in this film. She tells the story of her mother and her uncle. Cutting between the two narratives of two privileged siblings, each telling their story to the Shoah Foundation. Though taken separately, Kempner weaves them successful into a single narration, each sibling building on the other, seemingly responding to each other.Children of privilege Helen and David were born to a wealthy family living in a marvelous villa in Sosnowiec filled with books, decorated with marble, a garden, tennis court and stables. Their mother, a linguist taught them many languages including Hebrew. They had loving parents who not only dotted on them but uncharacteristically for that time and culture were deeply and openly affectionate with each other. They rode horses and lived a life of comfort before. Their father understood the dangers that were looming and prepared for them with Swiss bank accounts and papers for emigration, yet their mother refused to go. She would not. she could not, leave her mother behind.And then!The story of before always ends with and then!And then the Germans invaded: their home was confiscated by the Germans even before the Jews were ghettoized. For the Ciesla family this was a rude awakening, privileged no longer they were forced to move to a walk-up apartment in the center of town with a communal toilet in the hall. Worse were certain to come. Deportation. The family was deported but not before their maternal grandmother was shot. Helen’s words still startle: “that was the best thing that happened to her. She wasn’t tortured.” David completes her sentence: “she was better off. Auschwitz was waiting for her.”For David, his parents, and his younger sister Fanya, their destination was Auschwitz-Birkenau and selektion. Mother and daughter sent to their death. Father and son survive the selektion and are sent to work expanding the camp. David only tells part of the story, omitting some moments of extreme brutality, highlighting a moment of rare courage when he faced the barrel of cocked gun but would not betray his father. He also speaks movingly about the kindness of a fellow prisoner. Hearing his testimony, one again understands a most basic truth of human suffering. It certainly better not to suffer, but if you must suffer It is better to suffer with someone and not alone. David’s father continued to take care of his son even in the shadow of death. They sustain each other And when David is taken to the sick bay after a bout of dysentery, his father who believes that his son is lost, loses his own hope and his will to survive.Helen was taken from the deportation place where her family boarded their death train back into the ghetto to sort what was left behind – the Germans not only wanted to kill the Jews but also to loot their property, to enrich themselves and the Reich. This provided her an opportunity to escape. She is hidden by Poles whom her family knew but cannot stay with them for fear of being identified and endangering them. She is able to get false paper identifying her as a Polish non-Jew and is incarcerated in a Polish work camp.While Helen’s language is colorful, David is restrained.The story of the siblings takes a fascinating turn after. For David there is the driving desire to go back home and to find if Helen is still alive – that was the most urgent need of so many survivors. Helen’s linguistic skills gets her a job with UNRRA, and after a time and a struggle the siblings are reunited with Helen and her soon to be husband, an Jewish American reporter having an important role in the DP camp and David joining in.The ending is storybook. David comes to the United States penniless and with drive and desire gets an education, high school and college, rags to riches, he creates a financial empire and Helen becomes a world class artists whose works hang in US Embassies and even in the Plains Georgia home of Roslynn and Jimmy Carter. Only in America. David speaks of his gratitude, recalling his status as arriving in the United States as a DP, Displaced Person, he speaks of himself as a DP. Delayed Pilgrim.As survivors Helen and David have a story to tell, a legacy to transmit. And Helen’s daughter Aviva weaves it together into a moving tapestry. Before was whole, full, joyous. And then During, shattering, brokenness, death, destruction and loss. And After is the long journey back from that place to a world that is whole again. The great Hasidic master Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzzk once said: “nothing is a whole as a heart that has been broken and mended.”Pocketful of Miracles is a film not to be missed. Michael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust.

See also: Jody Blecker. Interview | Aviva Kempner’s ‘A Pocketful of Miracles’. 9 May 2024. Moment Magazine. https://momentmag.com/aviva-kempners-pocketful-of-miracles/

Kindertransport Commemoration
2024-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Jewish Heritage
The rescue network known as the Kindertransport saved the lives of nearly 10,000 children between the years of 1938 and 1940 by transporting them from Nazi Germany to England. This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport.

To commemorate the arrival of the first Kindertransport in England on December 2, 1938, the Museum and the Kindertransport Association present a screening of the short films 256,000 Miles from Home and Dreyfus Drei. 256,000 Miles from Home follows four Kindertransport survivors as they retrace the route they took from their homelands to England and Dreyfus Drei tells the story of Australian Jewish artist Ella Dreyfus and her quest to unearth her family’s lost Holocaust history.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dreyfus; Melissa Hacker, Executive Director of the KTA and director of 256,000 Miles from Home; Ilse Melamid, Kindertransport survivor; and Eva Yachnes, Kindertransport survivor. The program will be moderated by Dr. Eva Fogelman, renowned psychologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.

Opening of the Judith S. Kestenberg Papers at the Library of Congress
2025-01-19 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 2211 Broadway, 10024 New York, NY
Eva Fogelman will give a talk and participate in a panel discussion: Interviews with Holocaust Child Survivors as it Relates to the Field of Psychohistory

Join us in celebrating the legacy of Judith S. Kestenberg, a Jewish-Polish-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Renowned for her pioneering work on the psychodynamics of bodily movement and her psychohistorical studies on the Holocaust, Dr. Kestenberg’s contributions have left an indelible mark on fields of mental health, movement behaviour research, dance/movement therapy and Holocaust studies.

Please RSVP to: kestenbergarchive@gmail.com

This archive, now part of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, provides unparalleled insights into Dr. Kestenberg’s life-work offering a resource for scholars and the general public alike. The event will include opening addresses and a panel discussion from life-long collaborators and students of Kestenberg and a presentation of select items from the archival collection. We look forward to welcoming you to this special event celebrating a life dedicated to community, creativity, prevention of trauma and healing.

Date: 01/19/2025Time: 2pm – 5pmLocation: 2211 Broadway, 10024 New York, NY

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Hungarian Fulbright Foundation.

Program:14:15 – 14:25Janka Kormos: Making of the Judith S. Kestenberg Archive & Kestenberg’s Legacy within the History of Psy-sciences14:25 – 14:35Janet Kestenberg Amighi: The Kestenberg Movement Profile and the Question of Cultural Diversity14:35 – 14:45Susan Loman: Inspirations from Judith Kestenberg’s Center for Parents and Children applied to Dance-Movement Therapy14:45 – 14:55K. Mark Sossin: The Aspiration of Primary Prevention Throughout the Work of Judith Kestenberg14:55 – 15:05Silvia Birklein: The Kestenberg Movement Profile and the Embodiment of Emotions in Social Justice, Politics, and Social Transformations15:05 – 15:15Eva Fogelman: Interviews with Holocaust Child Survivors as it Relates to the Field of Psychohistory15:15-15:25Helene Bass-Wichelhaus: Working with Judith Kestenberg on the Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Coding Process in Psychohistorical Studies on the Holocaust

15:35 -15:55Panel discussion on personal recollections of working with Judith S. KestenbergParticipants: Janet Kestenberg Amighi, Susan Loman, Helene Bass-Wichelhaus, K. Mark Sossin, Eva FogelmanChair: Janka Kormos

Organizer:Janka KormosCommittee: Janet Kestenberg Amighi, Susan Loman, K. Mark Sossin and the Hungarian Fulbright Foundation

See also: Eva Fogelman. Echoes of Children’s Survival: Opening the Kestenberg Archive Online

See also: History of Science Society website.

Contemporary poets respond to the Holocaust
2025-01-28 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (L2 Auditorium), 334 Amsterdam Ave, New York, New York, 10023, United States
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence: Screening followed by Q+A with producer and poet Janet R. Kirchheimer, poet and actor Géza Röhrig, and poet Edward Hirsch, moderated by Eva Fogelman. Tue, Jan 28, 7 pm, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (L2 Auditorium). $18AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence is a deep dive into the creative responsibility of writers when faced with holocaust, catastrophe and genocide. Do they bury their heads in the sand or do they reach out to the world with their creative gift?

The first of its kind, where poetry and cinema combine and transcend, AFTER is an exploration of poetry written about the Shoah. Contemporary poets respond to the Holocaust and talk about the importance and necessity for poetry in a world that still grapples with genocide. Weaving a narrative, each poem has its own story, main character(s), and point of view, each acting as a short island with the entire film. AFTER also interlaces sequences of music, archival footage, personal photographs, and documents. The power of the words, performances, commentary, cinematic interpretations, sounds, and silences bring the poems to life on screen, offering a modern chronicle of poets examining history and the current day.

AFTER Trailer

Richard Kroehling. Photo Provided.

Director Richard Kroehling is a multidisciplinary artist, film director, multi-media maker, painter and poet. At university Kroehling was a student of iconic Hollywood director Nick Ray and avant-garde Austrian cinema artist Peter Kubelka, Kroehling’s works include feature films, mainstream television, non-fiction, video art, photography, poetry and installation media art.

See also: Nell Minow. After: Poetry Destroys Silence. 1 Nov 2024. RogerEbert.com

The poet Alicia Suskin Ostriker tells us what only poetry can do: “Poetry goes below the surface….in a way that journalism and academic language can never do. Poetry is what poets do with trauma.” She explains that the economy of poetry, the very aspect that can initially seem obscure, invites us to engage. “What is not said is just as important because it pulls the audience in and makes them be co-creators of the poem.” In the same way, this film immerses us and makes us participants in sharing the poets’ words.

Hannah Senesh
2025-10-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Theater Row, 410 W 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10036
“Hannah Senesh” premiered last night (October 19th) and will run until November 11th at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street.)

Click on this link for info about performances: https://bfany.org/theatre-row/shows/hannah-senesh/.Talkbacks of Note for the Minyan M’at Community:

October 26th at 5 pm: Eva Fogelman

November 4th at 1 pm: Matti FriedmanNovember 5th at 1 pm: Rabbi Viktoria (Viki) Bedo

Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for best solo performance (Lori Wilner), this electrifying solo play with music brings to life the extraordinary true story of Hannah Senesh — a fearless young Hungarian woman whose courage defied tyranny. As World War II looms, Hannah leaves her home to help build a Jewish state, only to later parachute behind Nazi lines on a daring rescue mission to save her fellow Jews — including her own mother — from the horrors of the Holocaust. A stirring portrait of resistance, resilience, and hope, this one-woman tour de force is as inspiring as it is unforgettable. More information at nytf.orgStarring Jennifer Apple as Hannah SeneshPlease note: Jennifer Anna Marie Medley will be performing as Hannah Senesh on 10/26 at 5PMPlease contact groupsales@nytf.org for group pricing

Theatre Three10/19/2025-11/09/2025

Written and directed by David Schechter

Developed in collaboration and originally performed by Lori Wilner

Composed and arranged by Steven Lutvak

Additional songs by Elizabeth Swados and David Schechter

Based on the diaries and poems of Hannah Senesh

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