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DR. EVA FOGELMAN
2nd Generation
Dr. Eva Fogelman is the daughter of Simcha Fogelman, a Byelorussian Partisan originally from Vilna, and Leah Burstyn Fogelman a survivor from Wishkow, Poland who fled to Jalebad. Dr. Fogelman was born in a DP camp in Kassel, Germany.
A psychologist with a doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and advanced training in family therapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Dr. Fogelman has devoted her life to helping survivors and their children learn how to cope with life and to feel less isolated.
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In the 1970s she was a pioneer in starting groups for generations of the Holocaust, treating survivor families, and helping them break the silence between the past and the present. Her groundbreaking research on the Second Generation (2G) found a well-adjusted, Jewishly active and politically aware part of American and Israeli societies, with most of them successful at what they have chosen to do. Her work was the basis of her 1984 award-winning documentary, Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust which aired internationally including PBS, ZDF in Germany, and the Cinemateque in Jerusalem.
In 1979, Dr. Fogelman and her colleague, Bella Savran, organized a conference in New York that galvanized the Second-Generation movement. As a founding member of The International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, born at The World Gathering, Eva Fogelman helped to spearhead an interest group that examined its role of moral responsibility to stop present day genocide by remembering the Nazi Holocaust through education, commemoration, and political action.
In the 1980s she did seminal research on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust and wrote a Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, which illuminates the psychology and history of the people who defied German law during the Third Reich, and who did not succumb to moral cowardice. Today she uses those lessons to raise consciousness about an “us-against-them” culture.
In 1986 Dr. Fogelman founded the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers with Rabbi Harold Schulweis, which became part of the Anti-Defamation League, and is now the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
In the 1980s Dr. Fogelman also devoted her energy to make the voice of the Holocaust child survivors heard under the auspices of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, a project of Child Development Research. These efforts culminated in the formation of N.A.C.H.O.S, and in 1991 the First International Conference of Hidden Children and the Hidden Child Foundation, ADL, giving courage to Holocaust child survivors in Eastern Europe to come out of hiding and embrace their Jewish past.
Dr. Fogelman is a psychologist in private practice in NYC and co-founded the first training program for Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas at the Training Institute for Mental Health.
Dr. Fogelman is an advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has published widely in professional and general publications, and is a frequent public speaker and guest on television, and radio programs.
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