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For the last 36 years I have worked extensively with Holocaust survivors' offspring, and have published and presented many papers and several books on this topic (see bellow the List of Publications). They focus on the transmission of trauma from Holocaust survivors to the following generations, and describe my approach to the understanding and treatment of these patients. The books were translated into several languages, as they are relevant to many countries in which the population has experienced persecution and trauma.
My research on the Holocaust also included an exploration of the second generation of the perpetrators in Germany, and the impact of Nazi education on several generations.
In 1989, I organized at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel, an International Conference which included 400 participants on the topic of “Transgenerational Transmission of the Holocaust Trauma from one Generation to Another”, in which the main speakers were Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and Dinora Pines, as well as the film director Claude Lanzmann.
Recently, I expanded my research on the topic of anti-Semitism. In 2015, I took part in a Conference organized in Prague in the memory of Otto Fenichel and presented a paper on the topic of “Reflections on Classical and Modern Theories on Anti-Semitism”. In April 2016 I presented a lecture at the EPF Annual Meeting on the topic of “Was Wagner a pure anti-Semite”? In March 2017, I will present at the EPF Conference in The Hague one of the main papers on “Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and Fear of Strangeness”.
From 1993-2009, I have supervised the work of the staff at the Refugee Clinic of the Eppendorf University Hospital, Hamburg, Germany. The patients hospitalized in this clinic were mainly refugees from Afganistan, Rwanda, Mozambique, Bosnia, and Romania. Most of them have experienced