A promotional meeting for Volume IV of the book "Children of the Holocaust speak..."

Volume IV, as with the previous three, contains a collection of occupation-time memoirs written by adults who were saved, as children, from the Holocaust.  

The meeting was chaired by writer Remigiusz Grzela. Among  the guests present were some of the authors of the memoirs contained in Volume IV, the editor of the volume Katarzyna Meloch, Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz, President of theChildren of the Holocaust Association, as well as other members of the Association.

Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz read selected excerpts of memoirs written by authors who were present in the hall, while Remigiusz Grzela  asked them about their feelings connected with the process of writing down theor memoirs. He also asked them about their motivation in undertaking such a task.

Katarzyna Meloch, who herself was also saved from the Holocaust as a child, spoke of the psycho-therapeutic functions of writing about traumatic events during the time of the occupation, how it helps to cope with feelings of loneliness due to a lack of living parents  or ancestors. She described the activity as an element in the process of seeking identity which provides a feeling that you are not just anonymous.

 (The Children of the Holocaust Speak...) took place on 15th October at Warsaw’s Klub Księgarza at the Old Town Square.

Volume IV, as with the previous three, contains a collection of occupation-time memoirs written by adults who were saved, as children, from the Holocaust.  

The meeting was chaired by writer Remigiusz Grzela. Among  the guests present were some of the authors of the memoirs contained in Volume IV, the editor of the volume Katarzyna Meloch, Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz, President of theChildren of the Holocaust Association, as well as other members of the Association.

Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz read selected excerpts of memoirs written by authors who were present in the hall, while Remigiusz Grzela  asked them about their feelings connected with the process of writing down theor memoirs. He also asked them about their motivation in undertaking such a task.

Katarzyna Meloch, who herself was also saved from the Holocaust as a child, spoke of the psycho-therapeutic functions of writing about traumatic events during the time of the occupation, how it helps to cope with feelings of loneliness due to a lack of living parents  or ancestors. She described the activity as an element in the process of seeking identity which provides a feeling that you are not just anonymous.