It came out in their tempers and in their moods and their sporadic energy, their rigid politics, their crazy parenting. He also never spoke as he and my mother raised the six of us and never spoke of what they had gone through in World War II. And so he was blown apart by the visuals, the unseeable visuals he took in. Actually, he was stationed in Germany in the US Army in World War II and found himself in Bergen Belsen, not because he was a liberator, but during the liberation the British were there and he was in a platoon that was a bomb detection squadron. And she never spoke of all the scores of cousins, uncles and aunts that, excuse me, that she had lost.Īnd my father was an American born Jew, assimilated Jew who went to Germany. My mother was born in Germany and she escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, barely, on the kinder transport. That neurosis, that charge, that constant intensity. It was only years later when I immersed myself in trauma psychology that I realized, oh my God, I was raised by trauma survivors. And my inquiry began with my family coming out and trying to escape a kind of what I thought was just a crazy family. Just briefly, I’ll say that I think all of our most passionate work is autobiographical. And so maybe we start with what brought you originally to be interested in trauma work, intergenerational trauma work, and then maybe you tell us a little bit about intergenerational trauma. And I’m here in Tel Aviv and you’re deeply immersed in Jewish mysticism, so that’s also something that I’m interested in, but maybe we keep that for later. And I know we have many similarities in our work, although we never get to talk until now. I’ve been looking forward to this and following your work for several years now. Rabbi Tirzah Firestone:Thank you so much, Thomas. And so I’m very happy that you joined us, Rabbi Tirzah today to our conversation here. I am most looking forward to talk to you already for years. My name is Thomas Huebl and I’m the convener of the Collective Trauma Summit, and I’m very delighted. Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (Aces). Living in “survival mode:” Intergenerational transmission of trauma from the Holodomor genocide of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Parents’ Emotional Trauma May Change Their Children’s Biology. Biological underpinnings of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder: focusing on genetics and epigenetics. Ryan J, Chaudieu I, Ancelin ML, Saffery R. An operational definition of epigenetics: Figure 1. Genome Biol 1, reports4013.1 (2000).īerger SL, Kouzarides T, Shiekhattar R, Shilatifard A. How many genes does it take to make a human being?. International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Intergenerational memory of the holocaust. The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the concept of historical trauma. Association between maternal adverse childhood experiences and mental health problems in offspring: An intergenerational study. Intergenerational trauma in refugee families: a systematic review.
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