Eva Fogelman

Eva Fogelman (born in Kassel ) is an American psychotherapist and social psychologist . Her focus is on Holocaust research , especially on the children of Holocaust survivors .

biography

Eva Fogelman was born in a DP camp in Kassel after the Second World War . After a stay in Israel , she emigrated to the USA in 1959 and completed a psychology degree in New York City . She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College , a master's degree in rehabilitation psychology from New York University , a doctorate degree from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a postdoctoral degree in family therapy from Boston University School of Medicine .

In 1976 Fogelman, who was then working at Harvard Medical School , founded the first short-term therapy group for children of Holocaust survivors with other psychologists, and continued this work with Israeli children at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978 . In June 1977 Helen Epstein published a report in the New York Times magazine on newly developed findings under the title Heirs of the Holocaust , which made the topic internationally known for the first time. In November 1979, 600 participants met for the first international conference on children of Holocaust survivors at the Hebrew Union College in New York, with Helen Epstein as keynote speaker. In 1986, Fogelman and Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis founded a Jewish foundation to support Christian rescuers , which is part of the Anti-Defamation League . With Judith Kestenberg and her husband Milton Kestenberg, she organized monthly get-togethers for children of Holocaust survivors in New York from 1984, which were later extended to other cities. Fogelmann currently runs a psychoanalytic practice in Midtown Manhattan . She is an advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and vice president of American Gathering , an organization founded in 1981 for Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants.

Her book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust , published in 1994 and awarded by Amnesty International and the Unitarian Universalist Association , has been translated into German and Czech. She has appeared on television programs such as Larry King Live and All Things Considered , and her contributions have appeared in Psychology Today , Lilith , The Forward , The Boston Globe , Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Tikkun (magazine) , among others .

Publications (selection)

• We weren't heroes. Lifesaver in the face of the Holocaust; Motifs, stories, backgrounds. dtv, 1998. ISBN 978-3-423-30641-6 .

Web links

• Short biography on drevafogelman.com