2nd Generation Memoir - ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER/ Sons of Survivors

2nd GENERATION MEMOIR   SUNDAY Feb 22, 2:00pm at Temple Sholom

ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER (and MARTY YURA*)/ Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited
Trauma
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TEMPLE SHOLOM

Two lifelong friends uncover their families’ long-hidden Holocaust history, confronting silence, reclaiming memory, transforming inherited trauma into a powerful legacy of love. The authors of this dual memoir were conceived in the same Displaced Persons camp in occupied Germany, and grew up in the close-knit
community of Yiddish-speaking refugees in America. Though the Holocaust formed the backdrop
of their lives, they didn’t talk much about it—until, as older adults, they embraced the imperative to
bear witness, and set out to discover everything that happened to their families in Poland. Navigating
through this haunted terrain, the friends realized that the love they inherited from their parents
transcends the trauma.

ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER was described by Elie Wiesel as “a writer possessed of a rare blend of
integrity, persuasiveness, and good literary sense.” His is the author of several history books,
founder of the Davka magazine, and editor of the Reform Judaism magazine.
*MARTY YURA (not appearing) is a psychologist and yoga teacher in the US.