Second Generation Radical: The World Through One Man’s Second Generation Lens
by Howard Rotberg (Author) – February 26, 2024
Second Generation Jews are the children of the survivors of the Holocaust and Third Generation Jews are the grandchildren of the survivors of the Holocaust. I am a member of the Second Generation. Much of the academic and other studies of these Jews focuses on the issue of passing along aspects of trauma to children, when that involves open communication about what exactly happened or even when it involves a reluctance to describe the experiences and traumas – in the hope of protecting children from the facts of the worst genocide in the Western world, perpetrated by a cultured Germany and often assisted by other European nations and tolerated in the United States and Canada.

















