Limmud NY 2014

This literature-based session will examine the particular set of circumstances and expectations that surrounded the birth of the first children of Holocaust survivors. The discussion will focus on the interpersonal and psychological dilemmas survivors faced as they began to create new families in postwar American society and will explore the idea that, for these children, their defining moments happened before they were born (Hoffman, 2004). Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors also welcome.