Inglés – English
Born in Poland in 1945, daughter of Jewish Shoah survivors. In 1947 came to Argentina and live there. I live in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, in a quiet neighborhood called Florida. Both Argentinian and Polish, I keep two passports that show my two citizenships.
I got my first degree in Psychology in 1971 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. At the same time I studied psychoanalisis which was my practice during ten years. Afterwords, in 1984 I got a post degree in Systemic Therapy in the Centro de Familias y Parejas, in Family Therapy which I practice until today. My writings are about my professional craft as well as about survivors of the Shoah and its descendants. My texts can be found here. My main interest is located in the awareness of totalitarian phenomenons, their internal dynamics, ideological and pragmatical substractum, because far from being a past issue they are dangerously alive in today´s world.
Author of:
- 2008 “El silencio de los aparecidos”, 2nd edition
- 2007 “Hijos de la Guerra. La segunda generación de la Shoá”.
- 2004 “Los niños escondidos. Del Holocausto a Buenos Aires”
- 1998 “Surviving Survival”, a collection of essays about Shoah survivors (published in Spanish as “El Silencio de los Aparecidos”),
- 1997 “De terapias y personas”, psychological text with Musia Auspitz (published),
- 1996 “Con una piedra en el zapato”, testimonial fictionalized novel (unpublished);
- 1995 “Por una margarita”, a travel chronicle (awarded in 1999 by the Acervo Cultural Editores, unpublished);
- Many of my notes and articles have been published in the media.
Institutional background
- President of Generaciones de la Shoá en Argentina, (Generations of the Shoah in Argentina), the blending of two groups: Children of the Shoah and Second Generation (since 2004).
- 2006 – founding member of Foro de Liderazgo y Participación – mujeres en la comunidad judía (Leadership Forum – Women in the Jewish Community).
- 2004 – Mother of the idea, planning and organization of Facing the Future, an international conference held in Buenos Aires in 2004. Previously a pre-meeting taught about the needs and interests that should be addressed. She belongs since september 2003 to the Advisory Board of the International Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust.
- 2001 – Co-idea and co-production and making of the testimonial film “And We Were Children” by Bernardo Kononovich, a video about the experience of survivors that were children during the Shoah. Frequently writes about the issue and lectures in schools and institutions locally and abroad.
- 1996/7 – I have assessed the Argentinian staff that worked in the testimony project by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation founded by Steven Spielberg in the psychological assessment.
Other:
- Having immigrated to Argentina illegally claiming to be Catholic because of the secret order that forbid the Jews to immigrate, I requested to the government the change of my identity in the Immigration Records. It was achieved in 2005. Read the story here (bloomberg) and here (JTA).
- Honored in August 2006 with the Moises Award, in Buenos Aires, formy work in the transmission of the Shoah and keeping its memory.
- 2008. “Los niños escondidos. Del Holocausto a Buenos Aires” was chosen by the Argentinean Foreign Office to be translated into German as one of the official books representing Argentina in the Frankfurt International Book Fair in 2010.
