FROM LIBERATION TO REBIRTH: What Can We Learn from Our Survivor Parents?
May 4, 11:30 AM—1:30 PM ET, on Zoom
We are excited to once again join with Israel’s 2G organization, Dorot HaHemshech, in a program that touches all of us. After an introduction to the topic by Professor Hanna Yablonka, participants will be divided into small discussion groups. This will enable us to share insights to our families’ experiences rebuilding their lives after the Shoah.
Professor Yablonka, has pioneered research on the lives of Holocaust survivors post 1945. In her research, she has emphasized the resilience and activism of the survivors.
Please register no later than May 1, since attendance will be limited. REGISTRATION
BIOGRAPHY OF PROF. HANNA YABLONKA
Professor Hanna Yablonka is affiliated with the History Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research has focused on the cultural and social impact of the Shoah on Israeli society. She pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. In her research, she has emphasized the resilience and activism of the survivors, instrumental in the building of the State of Israel. Professor Yablonka was also the founder and chair of the Israel Studies Department.
Hanna Yablonka is the author of over 40 scientific articles, the editor of four books, and the author of six books including: Survivors of the Holocaust (1999) (awarded the Ish Shalom prize by Yad Ben Zvi), The History of the War Veterans Association (1999,) The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2004) (awarded the Buchman prize Yad Vashem), and Off the Beaten Track: The Mizrahim and the Shoah (2008). Her last book, Yeladim b’Seder Gamur (Children by the Book) became a best seller. It is the collective biography of the generation of the first native Israelis born in the State of Israel between 1948 –1955. It was named best book on Israel for the years 2019 – 2020 by Yad Ben Zvi.
Among her many affiliations, she is currently a member of the Yad Vashem Council and was the academic advisor of Yad Vashem’s exhibitions marking the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the State of Israel. Hanna Yablonka is the chair of Governors of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed and the chief historian of the Ghetto Fighters Museum for the past 25 years.