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The submission of the paper by Dr. Eva Metzger Brown, which appears in this issue, spawned an intense desire in the editors of Psychoanalytic Perspectives to understand how the Holocaust Child Survivors drew on their own traumas and personal analyses to treat other traumatized patients. In the preparatory stage, we, the planning committee of this Roundtable (Anja Behm, Sheldon Itzkowitz, and Mary Sussillo), immersed ourselves in this daunting and vital project. Our interest in the Holocaust and its atrocities brought the three of us together while our shared emotional journey made us a group. Despite our differences, we shared a common thread in our lives—the Holocaust: a woman born and raised in East Germany, now a New Yorker, who was taught in grade school about the horrors that the Nazis brought upon the world; a woman born in Newfoundland, Canada, raised Christian, now a Jew, whose in-laws both rescued and lost cherished relatives in the Holocaust; and a man whose father lost his own mother, siblings, and all of their children in the concentration camps.
The deaths of the innocents and the suffering of those children who survived were ever-present in our meetings. The affective intensity of our very indirect