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ICMGLT Board member Harold Kudler travelled to Bucharest, Romania to take part in an international conference on Multidisciplinary Crisis Intervention held from October 7th through 9th. 

His presentation, Psychological Trauma: History, Theory, and Principles of Action, was well received. Dr. Kudler also took the opportunity to make a side trip to the city of Sighet in northern Romania.  Sighet is the home of Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel and the setting of much of his seminal Holocaust memoir,Night.  Sighet was also the home of Dr. Hedi Fried, a beloved member of the ICMGLT Honorary Board who passed away last year. It is also the setting of many of the books she wrote to educate new generations of children about the Holocaust.  These began with The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life and concluded with her final book, The Story of Bodri, which makes the meaning of the Holocaust accessible to very young children by telling the story through the eyes of a young girl and her pet dog.  The idea of visiting Sighet began years ago when Dr. Fried told Dr. Kudler (with a chuckle) that, when she toured the Elie Wiesel Museum which has been established in his childhood home, she was surprised to find her own family’s dining room furniture on display there. Dr. Kudler and his wife, Susan, were glad to make this pilgrimage to connect with Hedi yet once again.