Monday January 27th

10am Pacific | 11am Mountain | 1pm Eastern

On January 27th in 1945, the Soviet Army entered the concentration camp of Auschwitz. What they discovered was evidence for a monstrous crime, which still shapes the lives of the offspring – both of the murderers and of the escaped victims. Rabbi Tirzah Firestone grew up with a silence she only late in life learned to understand as the consequence of a victim-story in her own family, which nobody dared to transmit. She has had a hard time to deal with it, until she learned to transform the wound into wisdom. Is healing possible, is it possible, even in our times of terrible new wars, to keep up hope and the strive for spiritual healing?

Dr. Firestone shares her insights with the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora based on her groundbreaking research in transgenerational trauma legacies, Jungian depth psychology, and Kabbalah, to illuminate the redemptive possibilities inherent within the human psyche. As we enter into a full octave of decades since the events of the Holocaust, she suggest gathering in the spirit of the brave people of conscience who helped turn the tide of history then, to call forth our own courage, moral wisdom, and compassion to aid us at our pivotal moment now.