Family Treasures Lost and Found
I am an advisor to a film that was just completed titled Family Treasures: Lost and Found, directed by Marcia Rock and produced by Karen A. Frankel. About the Film Journalist Karen A. Frenkel wanted to understand her family history…
A Pocketful of Miracles Film: 2 Screenings in New York City
A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings 2 Screenings in New York City “One of the Best Films of 2023” –The Washington Post Museum of Jewish Heritage Sunday March 17th at 2PM In A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale…
Menachem Daum Obituary
Menachem Daum, 77, Filmmaker Who Explored the World of Hasidim, Dies: His acclaimed documentary “A Life Apart” presented a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable. Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997…
Trauma Guidance for Holocaust Survivors and Caregivers
Text following is from an email sent from The Blue Card. Dear Friends, I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good health and safety. Since October 7, 2023, we have been devastated beyond belief and our…
The War in Israel: imparting information to our children
Our children are vulnerable. They need to be protected from so many of the horrors of the war, but they also need to be told what is happening in the war in Israel in a way that is honest but…
Gender as a Dynamic in Women Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
I will be presenting at the Women in the Holocaust: International Scientific Conference. 10 – 12 Oct 2023. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory- Kraljice Natalije 45, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. The Conference is presented by WHISC – Women in the…
Book Review | The Baggage You Can’t Leave Behind
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory By Janet Malcolm Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176 pp. Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile By Maxim D. Shrayer Cherry Orchard Books, 146 pp. Daughter of History: Traces of an…
Dr. Giselle Cycowicz and Dedicating Your Life to Others After Trauma
The Blue Card Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma is honored to welcome Dr. Gita Cycowicz, from Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Cycowicz is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and labor camps at Gross-Rosen. Originally from Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, which…
The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is protected speech. As the children of Holocaust survivors, we understand where this leads
This article is re-posted from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Government-sanctioned bigotry is a first step towards dehumanization, write two Second Generation activists (JTA) — When the U.S. Supreme Court sided last month with a Colorado web designer who refuses…
Breaking the Silence Around Sexual Violence
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Wagner College Holocaust Center took on a topic with very contemporary resonance: sexual assault. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The January…