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Resources for Children of Holocaust Survivors |
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editor's note: Is your group missing from this list? please email me with the information! Thanks! -J
| Country | City | Name | Contact Information | Description |
| Austria | Vienna | Esra Center for Psychosocial
Care |
A-1020 Wien, Tempelgasse 5 Tel.: +01/214 90 14 Fax: +01/214 90 14 / 30 office@esra.at Administration: Peter Schwarz Office Hours: Mo. - Do. : 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Fr.: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Please phone for an appointment. |
Collaboration between the social welfare departments of the Jewish Community Vienna and the Municipality of Vienna, for psychological and practical advice and support. Counselling and treatment centre for problems and disorders caused by the Holocaust, exile or other causes (i.e. an individual's conflicting concept of his or her identity, his role in society or belonging to a minority). Also offers assistance to Jewish immigrants wishing to integrate themselves into Austrian society.Services include outpatient care, social services and a social centre. |
| Canada | Toronto |
Baycrest - a geriatric care facility that sponsors Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors |
Paula David (416) 785-2500, ext. 2271 3560 Bathurst Street Toronto, Ontario M6A 2E1 Canada P: (416) 785-2500 F: (416) 785-2378 |
Aging Parents/Aging Children for children of Holocaust survivors, the "second generation" regular meetings of the support group allow participants to share their feelings group is led by an experienced social worker who will help participants identify their needs, and what can be done for them and their aging parents. Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., group meets bi-weekly |
| Paula David | (416) 785-2500, ext. 2271 | Coordinator of the Holocaust Resource Project and a senior social worker at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto, has provided group work, individual counseling, and program development for Holocaust survivors and their families. She has published extensively, including teaching modules for professional staff working with survivors of genocide and PTSD. | ||
| Vancouver | Robert Krell | P: (604) 261-4094 F: (604) 261-1183 |
Former Clinical Director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Outpatient Department, University Hospital, University of British Columbia (UBC), is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the UBC. He is also a Co-Chair of the Holocaust Education Committee, founder and former President of the Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education Remembrance, and author of books and articles on the problems of Holocaust survivors and their children. | |
| Israel | Jerusalem | Amcha | AMCHA Center, P.O.Box 2930, Jerusalem 91029. P: 972-2-6250634
F: 972-2-625-0669 Amcha - Israel |
9 branches: Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya, Beer Sheva, Rehovot, Kiriat Motzkin, Ramat Gan and Ashkelon, and various programs are provided also in many other locations. Over 150 highly devoted mental health professionals work part-time to provide services in Hebrew and many other languages. Services provided to the Second Generation couple and family counselling open and closed groups for children of survivors advice about caring for their elderly parents. Description of Amcha by Natan P.F. Kellermann. |
| Psycho-Oncology Unit Department of Clinical Oncology and Radiotherapy Sharett Institute of Oncology Hadassah University Hospital | P.O.B. 12000 IL-91120 Jerusalem Israel P: 972-2-566-4701 F: 972-2-566-3686 Lea Baider |
Special Population Group Interventions: Second-generation Holocaust survivor cancer patients are taught techniques of memory and identification with their parents. | ||
| Israel Charny | Founder and Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Genocide. He is a clinical psychologist and a Professor of Psychology in the Program for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy, which he founded in 1993, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | |||
| Daniel Brom | The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma 21 HaDishon Street POB 3900 Jerusalem 91035 P: (+972) 2 678-2899 F: (+972) 2 678-9908 |
Clinical psychologist, is the founding director of the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem. He has written extensively on the consequences of psychological trauma and recently edited a special issue of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry on Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Children of Holocaust Survivors. | ||
| Netherlands | Amsterdam, Amersfoort | Sinai Centrum | Assumburg 2, Van Nijenrodeweg Postbus 75641 1070 AP Amsterdam P: 020 - 30 13 730 F: 020 - 30 13 731 Sinai Centrum Laan 1914 nr 23 3818 EZ Amersfoort P: 033- 4640640 F: 033-4619616 info@sinaicentrum.nl | Psychiatric facility including a specialization in Holocaust-related trauma. |
| Switzerland | Zurich | Tamach |
P: _41 44 202 56 58 F: +41 71 244 29 35 PO Box 8021 Zurich Tamach email |
1st and 2nd gen individual and group theraputic services |
| US | California, Los Angeles | Darlene Basch | 6310 W. San Vicente Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048 (323) 937-4974 | 2G. |
| Klara Firestone, individual and group | Klara Firestone 818-761-2227 ext. 245 to schedule an intake session. | New session of the group in formation, held at the Center For Individual and Family Counseling in No. Hollywood, CA, weekly, 20 per session. I also do individual therapy for second generation. | ||
| Natalie Gold, MSW | (323) 939-0166 | Child survivor and 2G. | ||
| Dr. Flo Kinsler | 145 N. Carmelina Ave. Los Angeles CA. 90049 P: (310) 472-2676. | Will see Medicare clients if they have coinsurance, supports several group plans, individual and will do limited-time prescreened groups. Former Director of the Jewish Family Service in Los Angeles. | ||
| Mary Leventhal, MD | (310) 659-0112 | Psychiatrist, 2G. | ||
| Sara Moskowitz | (310) 459-3226 | Expert on child survivors. | ||
| Andrei Novac, MD | (949) 760-9133 | Psychiatrist, 2G. | ||
| Ben Pomerantz | 6399 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048 (323) 653-0489 | 2G. | ||
| Anne Reisman, MSW, LCSW | 458 S. Crescent Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 552-9756 | 2G. | ||
| Lillian Trilling | (818) 996-2766 | Survivor. | ||
| California, San Francisco/Bay area | Adoption Connection/Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) | 1600 Scott Street (at Post Street) San Francisco CA 94115 P: (415) 567-8860 F: (415) 922-5938 |
The Holocaust Survivor Program provides counseling, home care, financial aid and discussion programs for Holocaust survivors and their families. | |
| Healing the Wounds of History programs | Armand Volkas Drama Therapist The Living Arts Counseling Center 510-655-5186 |
Offers a process for people from cultures in conflict with legacies of historical trauma to work through their cultural inheritance in an integrative way. The model combines intercultural communication, conflict resolution and ethno-therapy with the expressive arts. | ||
| Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties: Holocaust Survivor Services | 2150 Post St., San Francisco, CA 94115 P: (415) 449-3823 F: (415) 449-1229 E-mail JFCS SF |
Counseling, case management, social activities including the weekly Café by the Bay and monthly Lunch N Learn programs, financial and practical assistance for Holocaust survivors and their families. | ||
| Cynthia Brody, Marriage and Family Therapist | P: (415) 522-9080, East Bay (925) 926-6566 |
Individual, couple and family therapy for issues related to the legacy of the Holocaust. Cynthia Brody is a licensed psychotherapist who utilizes creativity along with insight to draw out strengths which have been gained through difficulties and help others utilize them to create the changes they desire. | ||
| California, San Jose/Silicon Valley |
Jewish Family Service of Silicon Valley | 1101 South Winchester Blvd. Suite L-237 ~ San Jose, CA 95128 T: (408) 556-0600, F: (408) 551-0091 | has a support group for caregivers | |
| Michigan, Detroit | Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families | 6710 W. Maple Road W. Bloomfield, MI 48322 P: (248) 661-2999 Charles Silow Sharon Levine (ext. 298) |
Specializes in working with survivors and their families of metropolitan Detroit through the variety of services provided by the Program including individual and family therapy | |
| Michigan, Royal Oak | Sheri Moskowitz Noga, M.A., L.L.P., L.M.S.W | 217 Knowles Street Royal Oak, MI 48067 P: (248) 584-4640 | Individual, marital and family therapy, EMDR for trauma resolution. As a 2G, qualified to understand the extreme conflicts and resolutions that can occur. | |
| New Jersey, Metrowest | Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors, Metrowest, NJ, NY | 256 Columbia Turnpike Suite 105 Florham Park, NJ 07932 P: 973-765-9050 F: 973-765-0195 |
Sponsoring Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors: for adult children of Holocaust Survivors. For more information call: Irit Felsen, (973) 765-9050, ext. 301. (973) 467-3300. | |
| Irit Felsen | 209 Morris Avenue, Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046 (973) 541-9900 |
Clinical consultant and Jewish Family Service Coordinator of Holocaust Services at the Jewish Family Service of Metro West, and an expert on the impact of the Holocaust on children of survivors, published in the International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma and the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry on transgenerational transmission of the effects of the Holocaust. | ||
| New Mexico, Albuquerque | Jewish Family Service of Albuquerque | 5520 Wyoming Boulevard NE Suite 200 Albuquerque, NM 87109 P: 505-291-1818 Toll Free: (866) 537-5373 F: (505) 291-0332 email JFSA JFS Holocaust Survivors Services Coordinator: (505) 291-1818 |
Bi-weekly support group is offered, a licensed therapist, whose family are also survivors, facilitates. | |
| New York, Hartsdale | Westchester Jewish Community Services in Hartsdale | 141 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, New York 10530 program coordinator Annelies Herzl P: (914) 997-7984 |
Westchester Jewish Community Services in Hartsdale, N.Y. has a Holocaust survivor support group and three second-generation groups that meet monthly; meetings are about two hours long | |
| New York, New York City | Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors | seems to be defunct | 12-Step program designed to heal via the steps, (2nd generation survivors and their children) via a fellowship of support meets once a week in NYC at the 14th St. Workshop at 242 14th Street in Manhatten - Sundays from 5:45-7:00. | |
| Children of the Holocaust Anonymous | Temple Shaarey Tefila, 250 East 79th Street (2nd Avenue) | Adaption of 12-step support group model started by a woman profiled in a Washington Post Magazine article about the Jewish Claims Conference. Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 pm. Open to child survivors, hidden children and children of survivors. | ||
| Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children |
345
East 80th Street (31-J) New York, N.Y. 10021 P: (212) 737-8524 F: (212) 628-2086 E-mail: Yael Danieli |
Directed and co-founded by Yael Danieli, a clinical psychologist
in private practice. She has done extensive psychotherapeutic work
with survivors and children of survivors on individual, family, group and
community bases. |
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| Mount Sinai Specialized Treatment Program for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children | Mount
Sinai Medical Center Fifth Avenue and 97th Street Gila Schwarzbaum P: 718-584-9000 ext 6971 Zilberfein, Felice |
Program offers short term group psychotherapy to children of Holocaust survivors, designed to help offspring more clearly identify and confront the effects that the Holocaust has had on their lives. Clinicians are specifically experienced in the treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. The psychotherapy sessions meet weekly for a specified number of weeks. | ||
| Training Institiute for Mental Health | 22 West
21 Street, New York NY 10012. P: (212) 627-8181 Kogan, Howard, Director of Training at the Training Institute for Mental Health in NYC |
Sponsors treatment services at a low cost ($20- $30 per session) and has a special program about the Holocaust and Second Generation. | ||
| Amira Kohn-Trattner | 25 Central Park West Suite 1-E New York, N.Y. 10023 P: (212) 496-8486 |
Clinical social work psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with a deep understanding of the effect of the Holocaust on Survivors, Adult Children of Survivors and the third generation. Offering individual therapy to all three generations and group therapy for 2nd and 3rd generation. Has been a consultant to the German Government for many years (on behalf of Survivors), and to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Hidden Child. Led support group at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue for second generation. Group session are in English but in individual sessions Hebrew, German and Yiddish can also be spoken. | ||
| Annette Lebor | 999 Central Ave. Woodemere, NY 11598 (516) 295-1069 Woodmere, Long Island, Manhattan |
Practice includes work with individuals, groups, couples - Adults and Children. She is currently running groups for Adult-Children of Holocaust Survivors and socialization groups. | ||
| Lynne Spevack | (718) 377-3400 | Clinical social work psychotherapist with private practice in Brooklyn, New York in the Midwood / Flatbush neighborhood, providing individual and family therapy. Specializes in working with people who have experienced traumas of various sorts, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Has counseled many 2s and 3gs regarding various issues, including improving their marital and other relationships, finding a mate and preparing for marriage, overcoming depression and anxiety, parent guidance, and spiritual concerns. Sliding fee scale, available for therapy group if there is sufficient interest, available to consult pro-bono to those forming a self-help group. | ||
| Maurice Preter | 1160 Fifth Avenue, Suite 112, New York, N.Y. 10029 P: (212) 713-5336 |
Neurological and psychiatric evaluation and treatment in English, French, German and Yiddish, evaluation of medical documents for clinical and forensic purposes in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, no insurance or Medicare participation. | ||
| Yael Danieli |
345 East 80th Street (31-J) New York, N.Y. 10021 P: (212) 737-8524 F: (212) 628-2086 |
Clinical psychologist in private practice, victimologist, traumatologist, and the Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, which she co-founded in 1975. She has done extensive psychotherapeutic work with survivors and children of survivors on individual, family, group and community bases. | ||
| Ohio, Cincinnati | JFS Cincinnati |
11223 Cornell Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45242 P: (513)
469-1188 F: (513) 469-1195 |
Has a clinical social worker whose specialization includes Holocaust survivors and their families | |
| Deborah Eckert | Email D. Eckert | Clinical social worker at JFS Cincinatti whose specializations expressly include Holocaust survivors and their families. | ||
| Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | Council For Relationships Transcending Trauma Project | 4025 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 382-6680 Bea Hollander-Goldfein 215-382-6680 Nancy Isserman |
Running studies | |
| Sara Botwinick | P: (215) 473-4502 | Therapist and consultant, and a researcher for TTP, worked with survivors at Jewish Family and Children’s Services in San Francisco and conducts training workshops on working with Holocaust survivors for health care and mental health professionals. | ||
| Ira Brenner | Suite 116 10 Presidential Boulevard Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 P: (800) 789-7366 |
Has written extensively on the Holocaust and massive psychic trauma, including The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust (1996), Dissociation of Trauma: Theory, Phenomenology and Technique (2001), The Dimensions of Trauma (in press); and edited a special issue of the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, on the Holocaust (Jan. 2002). |
