Sunday, 12 February, 2023 1:00PM EST / 12:00PM Mexico / 7:00PM CET / 8:00PM Israel
This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar follows 27 January, the International Day of the Holocaust. Participants will describe the process of choosing to and making the documentary Whispers of Silence: Listening to the children of Holocaust survivors in Mexico, reflect on its impacts on audiences at home and abroad, and discuss future plans.
Participants are encouraged to watch the film Whispers of Silence: Listening to the children of Holocaust survivors in Mexico prior to the webinar. A link will be provided upon registration. Produced in 2021, based on 90 interviews with Mexican offspring of Holocaust survivors and 15 related experts, the documentary (in Spanish, with English subtitles) follows the survivors’ traumatic Holocaust experiences, their trying journeys to Mexico, where they created a haven for themselves and their newly created families, raising their children in the best ways they knew how, while transmitting to them their Holocaust and post-Holocaust legacies. The film teaches us this posttraumatic historical complexity with exquisite eloquence, psychosocial sensitivity, commitment to and love of life.
Speakers:
Aaron Cohen and Esther Cohen
Aaron and Esther Cohen have worked together for over 30 years producing audiovisual and documentary material on the Holocaust. Having conducted interviews with Holocaust survivors and their offspring in Mexico, they produced “Heaven in Auschwitz” (2016) and “Whispers of Silence: Listening to the children of Holocaust survivors in Mexico” (2021). They are now finalizing a web platform of 130 interviews with survivors’ offspring and 15 interviews with experts on the Second Generation.
Alexandra Salomon
A graduate of Educational Administration at Anahuac University, Mexico, Alexandra is married with 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany, her father, Claude Salomon Davidson, fled Berlin with his parents in 1933 for Antwerp, Belgium. At the beginning of 1941, they fled again, to Paris — soon invaded by the Nazis, and arrived in Mexico December 8, 1941. Her father’s grandmother was murdered in Treblinka extermination camp.
Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg
A Mexican politician and economist — a public servant for over 20 years, Salomón has served as National Commissioner for Social Protection in Health, Secretary of Health of Mexico, and Secretary of Economic Development of Mexico City. As Federal Deputy of the “Movimiento Ciudadano” political party, he is the Chairman of the Mobility Commission and Secretary of the Health Commission. Salomón is also President of “Pensando en México” — the National Consultative Council of the same political party.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Registrants will receive a link to watch the film for free upon registration.
