Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher (Jewish Children in the Holocaust)

Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher (Jewish Children in the Holocaust) image
ISBN-10:

9493231461

ISBN-13:

9789493231467

Author(s): Krell, Robert
Released: Jul 30, 2021
Format: Paperback, 394 pages
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Description:

The life of a Jewish infant in the middle of the Holocaust is constantly threatened. Deportation would mean certain death.\nDr. Robert Krell, the well-known psychiatrist and founder of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center, has long described young Holocaust survivors as “elderly children.” Robert Krell has received both local, national and international recognition for his life-long work in Holocaust education, remembrance, human rights and social justice.\nWhen Krell was only two years old and living in warn-torn the Netherlands, the Christian Munnik family was entrusted with his care. There, he learned to recognize a mother, a father and a sister in the faces of those who once were no more than family acquaintances.\nAfter WWII he is reunited with his parents who miraculously survived. Both parents and child have to deal with massive unspoken trauma. They choose to keep it at bay, deciding that never talking about it would help them forget and eventually heal. Until Krell realizes that forgetting is not a cure but a threat.\nForgetting could make the tragedies they all lived happen again.
Forgetting would mean erasing the lives of 6 million people from history.\nSounds from Silence is an extended reflection on the effects of being a child Holocaust survivor and a child of Holocaust survivors.\nKrell explores the circumstances that marked his whole life: the frustration of an abandoned child, the understanding that can only be acquired in adulthood, the regret of a mother who had to let go of his son to save his life.\nThe fight of a self-defined “elderly Jew with stories to tell” against Holocaust deniers and skeptics.












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