Tamar Aizenberg

Tamar Aizenberg is a PhD Candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Her dissertation is about grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and grandchildren of Holocaust perpetrators in several countries, focusing on what they know about their family history, how they have learned this information, and what they do with it. Previously, Tamar completed her Master’s degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis and her Bachelor’s degree in History and Jewish Studies at Williams College. She has held a variety of research fellowships in Austria, Germany, the UK, and the US. Tamar is also the granddaughter of a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor.

Stages of Storytelling in Survivor Families

06/03/2024 by Tamar Aizenberg

For my PhD dissertation, I have been conducting oral history interviews with grandchildren of Jewish Holocaust survivors in the United States and Germany since July 2023 with the goal of understanding how survivors and their grandchildren tell and retell stories about the Holocaust. Especially in the United States, grandchildren of survivors are typically studied based … Read more