Transforming Trauma: The Legacy of the Holocaust

This event will take place on the campus of Northeastern University: Robinson Hall 109, 336 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.

Zoom participation is also available here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/92412011896

Event Description:

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and the end of National Socialism in Europe. Looking back over the past 80 years, how have the victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and their descendants overcome the historical trauma and impact of the war? Join the German Consulate Boston and Northeastern University for a discussion with the founders of One-by-One-International, a group whose work aims to transform the legacies of mass atrocities by bringing descendants of victims and perpetrators into dialogue with one another.

Dr. Martina Emme and Rosalie Gerut will share their personal stories and present the origins and method of the One-by-One-International project and its work to confront the legacies of war and genocide.

Following the presentation, they will join Prof. Simon Rabinovitch and volunteers with Action Reconciliation Service for Peace for a panel discussion on the multi-generational work to address the legacies of the Holocaust and other genocide-related trauma.

Participant Bios:

Martina Emme, PhD, is a trauma pedagogue and head of the Department of Psychology at Anna-Freud high school in Berlin, Germany, where she teaches psychology and pedagogy. She has initiated the GeDenktag (January 27 Memorial Day) at the school. She is a member of the Cooperative Project between the Berlin Senate and the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and is involved in creating projects dedicated to the prevention of antisemitism. She was also asked to serve as a group psychoanalyst for rabbinical and cantorial students at the Abraham-Geiger Kolleg in Potsdam, Germany.

Rosalie Gerut, MA, is a licensed educational psychologist whose life has taken her on a variety of career paths. She has held administrative positions for Head Starts and MIT and facilitated groups for descendants of the Shoah and the Armenian genocide. She has received international recognition as an actress, singer/songwriter, producer, and recording artist. She officiates at life cycle events, leads Judaic study groups, and serves as the director of adult educational, cultural, and social programming for Congregation Kerem Shalom in Massachusetts.

Teresa Nüllmeier (19) is from Wuppertal, Germany. After graduating from High school with her Abitur in May of 2024, she decided to complete a one-year voluntary service with ASF/ARSP in the USA. Since September 2024, she is serving at the Rosylndale branch of Hebrew Senior Life in Boston.

D'janil Siebert Constantinho (20) is from Berlin, Germany. After graduating with his Abitur in 2023, D´janil worked for a year at an elementary school in Berlin. Since August 2024, he is completing a one-year voluntary service with ASF/ARSP at the Center Communities of Brookline, another branch of Hebrew Senior Life.

Simon Rabinovitch is the Stotsky Associate Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University and Chair of Northeastern's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee.

Host or Publisher German Consulate Boston