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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Eva Fogelman, PhD, author: “Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust” writer/co-producer “Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust” (PBS); founder, with Rabbi Harold Schulweis, of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Join us for the launch of our new series “Transforming Moments,” which highlights the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors (2Gs). In this inaugural episode, Elisha Wiesel, former Goldman Sachs CIO and son of the …
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 …
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), join us for a conversation with Joshua M. Greene, author of Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend. Greene, …
The Jewish experience includes a history of dislocation, trauma, and resilience. World-renowned experts in the fields of trauma, epigenetics, and mental health will discuss the implications of the research and clinical work they have done …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, NCJW/CLE and the Kol Israel Foundation bring Dr. Eva Fogelman, nationally recognized pioneer in the treatment of the psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants, to moderate a …
“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 …
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. 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 …
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 …
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 …
For three generations, from Warsaw to Vilna to Shanghai to New York, the Mlotek family has played a major role preserving Yiddish culture and heritage. Join Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre …
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 …
Trauma, Memory and Art: An interdisciplinary virtual conference with Ori Z. Soltes, Larry R. Squire, Natan P.F. Kellermann and Eva Fogelman In this interdisciplinary conference, four experts discuss the transmission of Holocaust trauma and memory …
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 …
4- Part Discussion Series: Critical Images of Relationships in the Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors Session 1: Holocaust survivor grandparent(s) relationship Sunday, November 1 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET Virtual Event on Zoom for 8 sessions. …
4- Part Discussion Series: Critical Images of Relationships in the Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors Session 3: Critical images of one’s own experience with intimate relations developmentally Sunday, November 15 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET Virtual …
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 …
Fascinating online event happening now with Eva Fogelman and Gaby Glassman discussing ‘Descendants of the Holocaust 75 years after liberation’ with 200 participants. ariana neumann (@ArianaNeumann) Tweeted: Such an insightful talk this afternoon about the …
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, …