Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacy: Voices Across Generations

“Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacy: Voices Across Generations” is a powerful Talking Memory program that brings together creative voices exploring how the Holocaust continues to resonate across generations.

Centered on the transmission of memory, trauma, and resilience, the program invites audiences to consider not only the experiences of survivors, but also how their stories have shaped the identities, responsibilities, and creative expressions of their children and grandchildren.

The program will feature Stacey Goldring, founder of Searching For Identity, who is the writer and producer of the documentary Traces: Voices of the Second Generation, which gives voice to the children of Holocaust survivors as they reflect on inherited memory, loss, and resilience, illuminating how the past continues to shape the present.

Through personal testimony and storytelling, Goldring’s work highlights the enduring impact of the Holocaust and the role of the second generation in preserving and transmitting these histories. The documentary will be available for free viewing, with a link provided as part of the program below, allowing audiences to engage more deeply with these personal narratives.

In addition, the creators of the project and exhibition “And Yet, And Despite Everything”, Debbie Morag, an Israeli photographer who was born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, and Dr. Mala Meir, also the daughter of Holocaust survivors, will present their work, which engages with questions of continuity, identity, and the fragile yet persistent threads connecting multiple generations.

Together, these conversations offer a nuanced and moving exploration of legacy—how memory is carried, reinterpreted, and kept alive—ensuring that the voices of the past continue to shape the moral and cultural landscape of the present and future.

Register for the free screening of Traces: Voices of the Second Generation:
https://www.tracesfilm.com/watchnowaccess