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, …
Topic: Survivors
A Pocketful of Miracles screening at Cornell Cinema
“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” …
Family Treasures Lost and Found
I am an advisor to a film that was just completed titled Family Treasures: Lost and Found, directed by Marcia Rock and produced by Karen A. Frankel. About the Film Journalist Karen A. Frenkel wanted …
A Pocketful of Miracles Film: 2 Screenings in New York City
A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings 2 Screenings in New York City “One of the Best Films of 2023” –The Washington Post Museum of Jewish Heritage Sunday March 17th at 2PM In A …
A Pocketful of Miracles screening March 3 at the Katzen Arts Center
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 Hanka and Dudek Ciesla grew up in …
A Pocket Full of Miracles screening with talkback
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 …
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 …
Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Who Will Speak for Them?
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. …
Book Launch-The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community
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 …
“Researchers Remember” Book Talk
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 …
“The Flat” Screening and Discussion
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
2021 Rosen Summer Symposium on Children in the Holocaust
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. …
Other Voices: Daughters of the Holocaust
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 …
Love & Sex Across Holocaust Generations
Featured Keynote Speakers Love & Sex Across Holocaust GenerationsWith Dr. Eva Fogelman & Esther Perel May 5, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm EDT Find out how past traumatic experiences affect new intimate relations from therapists experienced in working with …
Founders of the Second Generation Movement
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 …
Transforming Moments With Elisha Wiesel and Dr. Eva Fogelman
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Transforming Moments with Eva Fogelman and Zalmen Mlotek
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 …
Trauma, Memory and Art
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 …
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 …
Critical Images of Relationships | Part 1
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. …
Critical Images of Relationships | Part 2
4- Part Discussion Series: Critical Images of Relationships in the Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors Session 2: Second generation parent(s) interaction Sunday, November 8 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET Virtual Event on Zoom for 8 sessions. …
Critical Images of Relationships | Part 3
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 …
Critical Images of Relationships | Part 4
4- Part Discussion Series: Critical Images of Relationships in the Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors Session 4: Consequences of a Holocaust family history on one’s committed relationships Sunday, November 22 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET Virtual …
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 …
