Request to participate in a study

GenShoah SWFL other notes and events

By Ida Margolis and Shelley Lieb

Dr. Irit Felsen and her colleague, Prof. Shrira from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, are currently conducting research on examining the effects of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the subsequent Israel-Hamas War on descendants of Holocaust survivors and Jews without Holocaust familial background. This study focuses on adult Jewish persons born after 1945 whose parents, both mother and father, were alive before 1945. Both parents should have been born in North or South America, Europe including the former Soviet Union, Oceania, South Africa or Israel.

The catastrophic attack on Oct. 7 and the events that followed have profoundly impacted Jewish people and children of Holocaust survivors (2Gs). It is important to have empirical data, which we ask you to help us obtain. Please help us by providing your responses to this questionnaire; It is completely anonymous and takes between 20-30 minutes. Also, feel free to disseminate this study to other Jewish people, both children of survivors and their peers who are not children of survivors (but, they must be of European descent).

Here is the link to the study: https://biusocialsciences.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6SApGdPTbsIDofc

2024 Annual Conference

The World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants (WFJHS&D) will hold its 2024 Annual Conference Sept. 20-23 in Toronto, Canada at the Hilton Toronto/ Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa. The Kindertransport Association (KTA) will join the conference once again as will members of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI). Registration is open, available both online and by mail, April 3-Sept. 11.