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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Two young child survivors on board the SS Mataroa display their tattooed arms. ——US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Israel Government Press Office

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 …

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Attendees from the US and Guatemala at multi-generational candle-lighting ceremony in memory of the SixMillion Martyrs. Jerusalem, 2017. Courtesy of the World Federation of Jewish Child survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Dr. Robert J. Lifton. Courtesy Democracy Now!

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 …

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Children of the Warsaw Ghetto. Stanford University.

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 …

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Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

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