This paper examines some features and roots of anti-Semitism with Hungary as an example.
Categories: Holocaust, Nature, treatment, memory, bearing witness
Holocaust
Anti-Semitism in Hungary
Bearing witness. Encyclopedia of Trauma 2012
Bearing witness is to tell a sacred truth, which even if unpalatable, has to be told for the sake of humanity. The Holocaust has added a new dimension to this mission. However,all traumatised people can bear witness to life and death and existential issues. The entry examines the conditions and the means that are or are not propitious to bearing witness.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 2011 Categories: Holocaust, Nature, treatment, memory, bearing witness, Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy
Letter to Child Survivors of the Holocaust in the Times of the Corona Virus
The current corona virus crisis has been likened to World War Two. For many child survivors of the Holocaust the crisis has indeed triggered memories and feelings from those times. The letter to child survivors mentions the similarities but also emphasises the differences between current and past times.
Publication Author: Connections Publication Date: April 2020 Categories: Child survivors of the Holocaust, Holocaust
Memories of the Holocaust: An Essay In Kavod
An examination of how the Holocaust has been, is and will be remembered.
http://kavod.claimscon.org/2014/06/memories-of-the-holocaust-an-essay/
Categories: Holocaust, Nature, treatment, memory, bearing witness
The Nature of Memory Across the Generations
Talk at Holocaust Centre for Child survivors of the Holocaust and guests.
We know not the future and the present is fleeting. We exist only in our memories. We are our memories.
In this Holocaust museum, we are in a world of objective memories. The past is gathered as historical evidence, so that the future is informed truthfully about the past.
But today we are concerned about subjective memories, and we need to understand them too, because they are at least as important as objective memories in fashioning the future.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 2023 Categories: Holocaust