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
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, …
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 …
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 …