Through the Lens of the Holocaust: Trauma & Intergenerational Trauma

Free and Open to the Public

Explore the long-reaching reverberations of mass trauma influencing the individual survivor, spouses and children born years after trauma ends.

Presented by Dr. Irit Felsen, herself a child of Survivors. She studied in Israel, Germany and at Yale University. She is a member of the Yale Trauma Study Group, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Yeshiva University, and the co-convener of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO Committee on Mental Health in the UN. She has published widely about survivors and about intergenerational transmission in the second generation.