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    Broken Chain; Catholics Uncover the Holocaust's Hidden Legacy and Discover Jewish Roots

    By Vera Muller-Paisner

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    By the early 1990s, four thousand Jews remained in Poland, a startling figure considering 3.25 million Jews lived there at the start of World War II. Indeed, of all the horrors of the Holocaust, Polish Jewry suffered the worst fate. But miraculously, the Jewish community in Poland has been experiencing a rebirth over the past decade. The Jewish population there is now estimated at twenty thousand. This increase is not due to immigration, but to the surfacing of secrets, family truths that have been buried since the early days of the Holocaust, when many Jews hid their identity, their religion, and their heritage in order to survive. Vera Muller-Paisner, a psychoanalyst who specializes in the transmission of trauma, and herself a daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland, became interested in this hidden legacy of the Holocaust and traveled to Poland to investigate this phenomenon and understand its impacts. She initiated support groups in Warsaw for Gentiles who had recently discovered their Jewish roots, and in this volume shares her findings and their heartbreaking and heartwarming stories, offering us a glimpse into the lives of those who “discover." Like those she went to help, she has struggled with her family's own hidden secrets. She speaks candidly about this and her internal dilemma about setting foot in a land that violently took so many members of her own family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 15, 2012
    ISBN9780985281564
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