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 …
Topic: Psychotherapy
“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 …
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 …
Eva Fogelman: Social Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Author (Part 1 and 2 of 2)
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, …
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 …
Eva Fogelman on the Charney Report
Katharina von Munster, Eva Fogelman, David Scott Paul | Charney Report. 20 Jan 2016. YouTube. This episode features a discussion on psychology as it relates to Holocaust survivors and their families with guests Katharina von …
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 …
Remembering Henry Krystal, Pioneer in Trauma Therapy
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 …
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 …