Webinar
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:00-3:00PM EDT / 10:00AM-12:00PM PDT / 6:00-8:00PM BST & CMT / 7:00-9:00PM CEST / 8:00-10:00PM EET & IDT / 9:00-11:00PM GMT+4
This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in partnership with the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel on the first Yom HaShoah after October 7, 2023. An international multidisciplinary panel of children of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust will reflect on the meanings and challenges of revisiting, studying, integrating, commemorating and mourning of the Shoah on this May 6, in the midst of overwhelmingly complex multidimensional aftermaths of old and new traumatizing realities.
Speakers:
Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz
Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener Professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Amit Shrira, PhD
A Professor and the Chair of the Department of Social and Health Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Amit is also a practicing clinical psychologist. His research program focuses on the late-life effects of massive trauma and its intergenerational transmission. He serves on several editorial boards and the advisory council of ICMGLT and is the recipient of the Early Career Award granted by the STAR Society.
Naomi Levy, MA
Naomi Levyis of the second generation with Polish and German child Holocaust survivor parents. She was originally a family law solicitor, later re-qualifying as a couples’ therapist. Since her retirement in 2015, she has focused her life on family Holocaust research and writing, feeling the necessity to create a record for the previous generation to be passed on to the next generation. She resides in both Jerusalem and London.
Aron Hirt-Manheimer, MA, MS
Aron Hirt-Manheimer was born in 1948 to Holocaust survivors in Feldafing, a displaced persons camp in United States-Occupied Germany. He served as the editor of Reform Judaism magazine Judaism from 1976-2014, and as editor-in-chief of the Holocaust Library. His books include Jagendorf’s Foundry: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust and Jews: The Essence and Character of a People coauthored with Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
