Research on Holocaust Survivors in Canada by Morton Weinfeld

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Writing Workshop and Emotions in senior Holocaust survivors by Diego Borisonik

“…<div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The goal of this research is to evaluate and describe the kind of emotions that emerge in senior Holocaust survivors over 73 years old at the writing workshop held at Tzedaka Foundation. …”
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Canadian Holocaust Survivors: From Liberation to Rebirth by Paula J. Draper

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A Canadian-Born Holocaust Survivor: Identity and Continuity by Rachel Mines

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An Exploratory Study of Unpublished Memoirs by Canadian Holocaust Survivors by Mervin Butovsky, Kurt Jonassohn

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Letters to the JDC as Autobiographical Sources of Jewish Holocaust Survivors by JOANNA ŚLIWA

“…Many of those letters also contain autobiographical information about the authors, themselves Holocaust survivors and their families. The descriptions of wartime experiences and survival strategies as well as of immediate postwar life (1945–1949) entail details and snippets of historical and genealogical value. …”
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"Prisoners of Hope" or "Amnesia"?The Italian Holocaust Survivors and Their Aliyah to Israel by Arturo Marzano

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Twenty-five Years Later: Revisiting Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors by Dori Laub, Johanna Bodenstab

“…The article presents researchers revisiting a group of interviewees – Holocaust survivors – who were interviewed for the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, one of the most important archives of such testimonies – after 25 years. …”
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Embodying History: Preserving Memories of Holocaust Survivors Through Performance by Anthony Hostetter

“…This study offers strategies for creating scripts and performing Holocaust testimony using the Brechtian idea of Verfremdungseffekt and Gestus to respect and honor the lives of Holocaust survivors Manya Frydman Perel, Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020) and Rosalie Lebovic Simon whom the author has had the privilege to meet and experience their individual testimonies.…”
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An IPA study of transgenerational trauma in the third generation of holocaust survivors by Sherman, Antonia

“…This research aims to bridge this gap and explore the experiences of being a grandchild of a holocaust survivor and how this may influence the way they make sense of their lives. …”
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Children of Holocaust Survivors: The Experience of Engaging with a Traumatic Family History by Irene Esther Krauskopf, Glen William Bates, Roger Cook

“…This study explored the motivation and the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors who were actively engaged with the traumatic histories of their parents. …”
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Wellbeing and national identity in three generations of Czech and Slovak Holocaust survivors by Marek Preiss, Marek Preiss, Marek Preiss, Monika Fňašková, Markéta Nečasová, Radek Heissler, Petr Bob, Alice Prokopová, Dita Šamánková, Edel Sanders, Ivan Rektor

“…The focal groups were Holocaust survivors (ages 71–95, n = 47), Holocaust survivors’ children (ages 30–73, n = 86), and their grandchildren (ages 15–48, n = 88), and they were compared to aged-matched groups without Holocaust history. …”
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Opening The Door: Immigration and Integration of Holocaust Survivors in Vancouver, 1947-1970 by Jean Gerber

“…Holocaust survivors who came to Canada have been characterized as alienated from Canadian Jewish life. …”
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Laczó, Ferenc (ed.). 2019. Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary. Toronto: Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, XI, 2019. 453 pp, ill. by Judith Szapor

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No Evidence of Persistence or Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants by Na Cai, Na Cai, Monika Fňašková, Monika Fňašková, Klára Konečná, Klára Konečná, Miloslava Fojtová, Miloslava Fojtová, Jiří Fajkus, Jiří Fajkus, Eve Coomber, Stephen Watt, Nicole Soranzo, Marek Preiss, Ivan Rektor

“…We found no significant difference in mtDNA copy number in the Holocaust survivors compared to controls, whether they have PTSD or not, and no significant elevation in descendants of female Holocaust survivors as compared to descendants of male survivors or controls. …”
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Echoes of transgenerational trauma in the lived experiences of Jewish Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors by Ilana G. Cohn, Natalie M.v. Morrison

“…Conclusions This study extends the literature on transgenerational trauma by shedding light on how the identities of Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors continue to be profoundly informed by their identification with familial narratives of trauma, despite their generational distance from the Holocaust.…”
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The Poetry of Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Towards a New Performative Social Science by Frances Rapport

“…The paper embraces the potential such a platform offers by presenting one Holocaust survivor's lived experiences of these extraordinary events including internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. …”
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Forgotten Stories of Women: Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma of Holodomor and Holocaust Survivors’ Offspring by Larysa Zasiekina, Becky Leshem, Tetiana Hordovska, Neta Leshem, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk

Subjects: “…female offspring of holodomor / holocaust survivors…”
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REVIEW: Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion and Transformation, 1947-1955" by Harold Troper

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Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors by Braga Luciana, Mello Marcelo, Fiks José

“…In-depth individual interviews were conducted with fifteen offspring of Holocaust survivors and sought to analyze experiences, meanings and subjective processes of the participants. …”
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