What resilience in the face of contemporary trauma?

Jewish DPs participating in a commemorative ceremony at the Buchenwald concentration camp. © Germany, circa 1946. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

70 years after the Second World War, generations of survivors, their children and grandchildren are still suffering waves of trauma from the Shoah. Are these traumas reactivated by contemporary events? How can we distinguish between what is due to the past and what is due to the present? How to reconcile the knowledge of this traumatic past with this present without making an amalgam?

This meeting will take place in two stages

I – Is there a specificity of post-genocide trauma?

In the presence of: Janine Altounian, translator and essayist, Anny Dayan-Rosenman, writer, lecturer in literature, Izio Rosenman, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, Christian Hoffmann, psychoanalyst, professor, Paris 7 University, and Régine Waintrater, psychoanalyst, lecturer, Paris 7 University.
Led by: Christian Delage, historian and director, director of the IHTP/CNRS.

II – The intervention of public authorities and associations after the attacks in Paris

In the presence of: Thierry Baubet, psychiatrist, head of the CUMP in Seine-Saint-Denis, scientific coordinator of the Impacts study, Carole Damiani, psychologist, director of the association Paris aide aux victimes, Éric Ghozlan, clinical psychologist, Psycho-trauma and Resilience unit, Centre Georges Lévy de l'OSE, Françoise Rudetzki, founder of SOS Attentats SOS Terrorisme.
Led by: Gilbert Vila, head of the department of psychopathology and victimology center for minors, Armand-Trousseau hospital.