Intergenerational Trauma – The Hidden Voices After The Holocaust

While much has been told about the atrocities of the Holocaust survivors, their descendants have trauma too.

There has been so much shared of survivors’ accounts of the atrocities they lived through in the Holocaust, but not nearly enough of the trauma they’ve passed onto their children, their children’s children, and what future generations may have to bear.  If we only consider the approximately 11 million victims who were murdered in the Holocaust, there must be at least that many survivors of family members/relatives, who probably have been inflicted with survivor trauma.  That also doesn’t consider that many descendants of survivors may live with generational trauma.

Psychological research has found that survivor trauma for those who survived a time as catastrophic as the Holocaust has been passed on genetically to their descendants, and lets us see what future generations may need to confront.

You may read more about Intergeneration Trauma and the Holocaust in the full article here.