Dear Colleagues + dear community of therapists, coaches and counselors of all kinds, dear everybody who is interested in transgenerational work,
for many experts of all kinds, as well as for many people from the general public the “Traces of Holocaust” workshops have had enlightening and life-changing effects. They accompanied the work of PAfE and FEPTO as training components of exceptional importance for many educational establishments and purposes all over the world since more than 30 years.
Hilde Gött and Yaacov Naor (who tragically past away in 2018) developed this work together, as descendants from families of the victim and the perpetrator side of the Shoa. Their work is worldwide known and acknowledged.
During the years 2017 and 2018, they opened their team for new members, to pave the way for the continuation of those workshops. In 2023, after the Covid pandemic – now in the new team – we were finally able to restart the workshops.
Program
After the arrival on Sunday afternoon we share two days in Krakow / Kasimierz, learning about the best preserved Jewish quarter all over Europe and starting the group process. For following four days we work in Oświęcim. We visit the camps Auschwitz 1 (Stammlager) and Birkenau. We stay in a conference center and work partially on the very ground of the unparalleled bestiality, about the individual traces of the group members and about the impacts of the Shoa up to today. Krakow and the memorial places in Oswiecim and Birkenau are our preferred places to work because of their powerful impact as reminder of the past in the present. On Saturday we travel back for the closure of the workshop in the evening.