Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust As Understood Through Film

About the Book

Much has been written and structures have been erected to commemorate the lives lost in the Holocaust. This book will focus upon what “living” has meant for those who survived. Through a series of case studies based upon carefully selected films, the ongoing impact of the traumas suffered by first- and second-generation survivors are carefully examined. Almost without exception, these films were either written, directed, or starred in a lead role a first- or second-generation survivor and, therefore, present an informed representation of what these people continue to experience. Film has come to be the most successful means of delivering the message of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel said that the worst of alternatives would be that the message of the Holocaust would be delivered with “nothing changed.” Hopefully, the message delivered by this book and its case studies will make some small contribution toward a realization of its title, Never Again!

About the Author

Sylvia Levine Ginsparg, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is on the faculty of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and the St. Louis University Medical School Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. Dr. Ginsparg is a past president of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society. She has been on the Board of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center since its inception, the Board of the Anti-Defamation League, and a member of the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival since it was established. She has written papers on survival in general and Holocaust survival in particular and is a frequent lecturer on the psychoanalytic study of film. Dr. Ginsparg is the mother of two sons and has five grandchildren.