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Out of Darkness: The Intergenerational Transmission of Resilience in Children and Grandchildren of Survivors

Public Program
Jewish youth liberated at Buchenwald lean out the window of a train as it leaves a station to take them to a children’s home in France in June 1945. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman

Jewish youth liberated at Buchenwald lean out the window of a train as it leaves a station to take them to a children’s home in France in June 1945. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman

Can one emerge from the darkness of the past and see the endurance of light and strength in our own generation and beyond? Dr. Yonit Hoffman, a clinical psychologist, will present about her own and others’ research on this question. She will discuss how her clinical work with Holocaust survivors and their descendants, as well as her own family’s Holocaust history, have informed and shaped her research and understanding of this “intergenerational transmission of resilience.”

The Chicago Children of Survivor group, chaired by Renee and Joe Silberman (2Gs), offers programs throughout the year for the local community as an opportunity to meet, connect, and learn. To learn more on how to join this group, please email Nicole Bela at nbela@ushmm.org.

Speaker
Yonit Hoffman, PhD, Director of Holocaust Community Services at CJE SeniorLife

This program is free and open to the public but reservations are required.

For more information, please contact the Midwest Regional Office at at 847.433.8099 or midwest@ushmm.org.