ABSTRACT
March 11, 2022, marked the second anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the two years since that declaration, virtually all aspects of life have been altered. This chapter describes the experiences of the aging offspring of Holocaust survivors (OHS) during the Covid-19 pandemic, as they were shared by over 3500 participants in multiple interactive virtual meetings during 2020-2021, and as demonstrated in the findings from an empirical study utilizing a North American sample of participants from these webinars. These observations are thus based on a North American, self-selected convenience sample, and do not represent the larger population of OHS. However, the mere number of participants who attended the meetings, and continue to request such meetings, suggests that the observations reflect the experiences of a significant segment within the larger group of OHS. The aim of the chapter is to report how adult children of those who survived the largest-scale genocide of the 20th century have navigated the largest-scale pandemic of the last hundred years, as well as the convergence of socio-cultural, political and economic crises that came in its wake.
