In the Making an Impact series, clients and services are featured to expand awareness of the wide array of help available at JFS and to ensure donors understand the lives they touch and the difference they make throughout the community. “I have the honor of providing care planning and coordination for Nancy, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor,” said […]
JFS will offer Conversations Around the Second-Generation Experience on Thursday, June 10, 7:30 to 9:00PM via Zoom.
JFS will offer “Conversations around the Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor Experience,” Thursday, June 10, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. via Zoom. The event will improve Second Generation members’ understanding of their parents’ traumatic reactions and how these reactions influenced their development. Participants will learn how facets of their childhood experiences might continue to impact them as adults. […]
JFS offered “Impact of Trauma from Generation to Generation,” a series of Zoom presentations featuring Dr. Irit Felsen. During the series Dr. Felsen, an internationally recognized expert in the field of intergenerational trauma and herself a child of Holocaust survivors, presented to interested members of the our community as well as professionals who work with […]
Family Dynamics and Difficult Issues in Treating Holocaust Families. A discussion of specific issues that complicate relationships among family members as well as with healthcare providers working with Holocaust families. Free CEU.
Historical & Intergenerational Trauma. Exploration of the processes involved in transmission of historical trauma among African-American, Indigenous, refugee and immigrant populations. Panelists will discuss their own experiences with the impact of historical trauma on second, third and in some cases many generations-long transmissions of trauma.
2G & 3G: Sharing a Unique Legacy. An interactive session focused on the struggles and unique resiliencies related to being a child or grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Limited to 20 participants.
Through the Lens of the Holocaust: Trauma & Intergeneration Trauma. Explore the long-reaching reverberations of mass trauma influencing the individual survivor, spouses and children born years after trauma ends.
JFS will offer “Impact of Trauma from Generation to Generation,” a two-part virtual free event on Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4. This event was originally scheduled for the spring but had to be cancelled due to COVID. The event will begin on Thursday, December 3 from 6:30 to 7:45PM with a presentation by […]
The intergenerational trauma event that was originally scheduled to be in-person last April has been rescheduled as a virtual event. “The Impact of Trauma From Generation to Generation” will be held on December 3 and 4 via Zoom. Featured presenter will be Dr. Irit Felsen. Dr. Felsen, herself a child of Survivors, studied in Israel, […]
