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SUMMARY:A Schindler’s List Survivor’s Story Never Told
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Robert Don tells his mother's story of surviving the
  Holocaust and intergenerational trauma that resulted. \nOn Yom Kippur day
 \, October 1993\, the rabbi’s sermon in synagogue was the story of the u
 pcoming release next month of the movie “Schindler’s List.” It had b
 een five years since my mother had passed away. At the end of the Rabbi’
 s sermon\, my father leaned over to me and told me something that she neve
 r did. It was six words that I would never forget – “Your mother was o
 n that list.”\n\n“In the Midst of Darkness:” The memoir explores wha
 t I know of my mother’s teenage life as a Schindler’s List survivor\, 
 which confronts Intergenerational Trauma (“Second Generation” holocaus
 t survivor trauma) manifested in racism – how it can begin\, what it can
  do to us –deeply penetrating its familial and social ramifications and 
 how we can reconcile even amidst the reach of darkness. The underlying the
 me draws upon my mother’s life being saved by Oskar Schindler – a Nazi
  German and the irony of how her children grew up.\n\nThe story explores m
 y mother’s trauma primarily resulting from the atrocities she endured du
 ring the Holocaust\, and her parents and six of seven brothers and sisters
  who were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. She deeply inflicted 
 her trauma upon her sons as children\, but far more critically in my broth
 er through bitter hatred for my German stepmother and all Germans.\n\nJess
 e Eisenberg’s new movie that was released late last year\, “A Real Pai
 n\,” an Academy Award winner\, includes a story of Intergenerational Tra
 uma due to the Holocaust. Another film recently released in January\, “T
 he Brutalist” that won three Academy Awards\, including Best Actor also 
 tells the story of the impact of a Holocaust survivor living with that tra
 uma and assimilating to life in America after the Holocaust. Both films ho
 pefully begin to change that there has always been so much shared of survi
 vors’ accounts of the atrocities they lived through in the Holocaust\, b
 ut not nearly enough of their trauma\, and their descendants as told in a 
 Real Pain. This is what my brother and I grew up with as children – our 
 mother’s trauma was our trauma.\n\nAbout the Author: Robert Don has been
  changing careers from his professional background in senior risk manageme
 nt in corporate banking to becoming a writer. He recently conducted resear
 ch in both the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps where his mother 
 was deported and is deeply familiar with the Holocaust stories being told.
  Having lived through this story\, he finally wanted to tell the story and
  is well versed in the details of this time period of the Holocaust. In th
 e Midst of Darkness will be his debut book.\n\nThis event is free of cost\
 ; registration required.&nbsp\;\nRegister Here
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