ABSTRACT
For more than forty years I have struggled to understand how the Holocaust could have occurred and tried to find ways to understand the effect that these horrific events have had on survivors and their families. I thought of myself as not having been affected by the Holocaust because no members of my family had been subjected to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Then I attended a professional workshop and unexpectedly was asked to confront and explore my reactions to the Holocaust. The intensity of my responses led me to the realization that the Holocaust has had a profound influence on my life and on my identity as a Jewish woman. I began exploring the impact that the Holocaust has had on other Jewish women, who, like me, were “not directly affected.”
