A journey to the holocaust: modes of understanding among Israeli adolescents who visited Poland

Lazar, Alon; Chaitin, Julia; Gross, Tamar; Baron, Dror

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“…Items of the National Resilience scale were taken from a number of studies: The Center for National Security at Haifa University (Ben‐Dor et al, ); a study on the individual and public resilience in the town of Kiriyat Shemona 1 year after the Second Lebanon War (Kimhi & Eshel, ); and studies of Israeli identity and patriotism (Auron, ; Lazar, Chaitin, Gross, & Bar‐On, ). The scale contains 29 items, rated on a 6‐point scale ranging from 1 ( very strongly disagree ) to 6 ( very strongly agree ), and refers to trust in leadership, trust in the Israeli Defense Forces, patriotism, optimism, sense of danger, and trust in major national institutions.…”

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Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Goroshit

Eshel

2013

Journal Community Psychology

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This study focuses on demographic antecedents of community and national resilience. We hypothesized that both kinds of public resilience would be predicted by 4 demographic variables, which have rarely been associated with community or national resilience in the past: community type, age, and levels of religiosity and preparedness. The final sample of 435 participants included 92 kibbutz members, 61 moshav members, 38 inhabitants of villages, and 244 town dwellers. Results indicated the following: (a) when demographic variables were accounted for, community and national resilience were positively correlated with each other; (b) the demographic variables in the path analysis model, controlling for each other, significantly predicted community and national resilience; (c) older age and higher level of religiosity positively predicted both community and national resilience; (d) higher preparedness positively predicted only community resilience; and (e) higher communality of the community was associated with higher community resilience and lower national resilience.

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Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Goroshit

Eshel

2013

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Secondary trauma after visiting the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial was highly prevalent among a vulnerable group: those students with the highest empathic concern, who easily included the victims into the self. This problem reflects the question of emotional overgeneralization observed among Israeli students visiting Nazi death camps in Poland (Lazar, Chaitin, Gross, & Bar-on, 2004) and the increased levels of anxiety found among Jewish participants in the March of the Living event at Auschwitz (Nager, Pham, Grajower, & Gold, 2016). Results of the studies of Jewish visitors to Auschwitz suggest that such visits lead to increased spirituality, which limits somatizations and other negative outcomes from visiting traumatic places (Nager et al, 2011).…”

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“…Overall, our study presents initial evidence about the potential risks involved in unprepared confrontations with memorial sites that commemorate a traumatic past. We suggest that visits to places like Auschwitz-Birkenau should be preceded by more intense elaborations of Holocaust history that could possibly reduce their detrimental effects on psychological well-being among the most empathic visitors and enhance these visitors' ability to work through the traumatic past (cf., Lazar et al, 2004). Such preparation could include providing sufficient information about the scale of the genocidal crime and images that could desensitize students before their exposure to naturalistic artifacts presented at the memorial sites.…”

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Visiting Auschwitz: Evidence of secondary traumatization among high school students.

Bilewicz¹,

Wójcik²

2018

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Secondary traumatic stress has been intensively studied among survivors' therapists, family members, and trauma researchers. We claim that people who are exposed to reminders of past traumatic experiences when visiting places of memory or museum exhibitions could also develop secondary trauma symptoms. Thus, scholars and practitioners must better understand how such places related to historical traumatization (e.g., Holocaust memorial sites) can affect the psychological well-being of visitors. The main aim of this quantitative longitudinal study was to assess the scale of secondary traumatization among visitors to such places. The study found that the syndrome of secondary traumatic stress was observed among 13.2% of high school visitors to the Auschwitz memorial museum. Longitudinal analysis revealed that empathic reactions to the visit in Auschwitz (e.g., a greater inclusion of victims into the self) were associated with higher levels of secondary traumatic stress levels 1 month after the visit. This study suggests that visits to places related to traumatic past events should be preceded by a more intense elaboration of Holocaust history and by proper psychological preparations. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Previous research on Holocaust education has emphasized the relevance of learning processes during excursions to Holocaust memorial places, especially the affective/emotional impact on students experiential learning (Romi & Lev, 2007), their modes of understanding the Holocaust (Lazar et al, 2004a), and their Jewish identity (Lazar et al, 2004b). However, limited research has explored experiential learning related to Holocaust memorial places with tertiary (Higher Education) students.…”

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“The Perception of Visiting Holocaust Sites on Undergraduate Students Learning Process”

2022

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This paper presents the main findings of a qualitative research project. The aim of the research was to explore undergraduate students’ perceived knowledge acquisition and awareness of the Holocaust, after visiting Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The qualitative study (focus groups & semi-structured questionnaires) involved three cohorts of students and lecturers from a university in the North West of England. The participants visited the Holocaust-related sites in Poland from 2016 to 2019. Findings indicate that students’ who actively engaged in visits to Holocaust related sites developed knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust. For many participants, this knowledge and awareness was facilitated via a reflective process that enabled empathic connection between these historical events and the students. The study also highlighted practical strategies that could be implemented to enhance the experience for future cohorts of undergraduate students visiting holocaust related sites. By adding to the limited literature on Holocaust education with undergraduate students, the study highlighted the importance and directions for future research in this area to inform future pedagogic practice.

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A journey to the holocaust: modes of understanding among Israeli adolescents who visited Poland

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Visiting Auschwitz: Evidence of secondary traumatization among high school students.

“The Perception of Visiting Holocaust Sites on Undergraduate Students Learning Process”

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