The Ones Who Remember with Joy Wolfe Ensor, Julie Ellis, and Ava Dee Adler

Join 3 local authors as they present from their anthology The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust, in which they explore the ways their parents’ Holocaust experiences affected them and their families.

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About the Book:

How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust.

The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all.

Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.

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About the Authors:

Julie Ellis is devoted to family, elder care, and volunteerism. Like her survivor parents, she helps keep generations of her cousins connected. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Julie has held management positions in retail and consulting. She and her husband Charles, a U-M emeritus professor, have a son and daughter-in-law who are journalists in New York.

Ava Dee Adler, MSW grew up outside of Detroit and moved to Ann Arbor to attend the

University of Michigan, earning both Bachelor’s and Master of Social Work degrees. Her career included work with children in foster care, addiction, and medical social work. Ava and her husband, chef Burt Steinberg, raised their nephews, Matthew Powondra and Zachary Adler, and now have grandchildren Sasha, Levi, Ezra, Maya, and Nora. Ava has a passion for social justice and loves dance, theater, movies, and books.

Joy Wolfe Ensor, PhD is a retired psychologist whose clinical, teaching and leadership activities over 45 years centered on the social determinants of health and the multigenerational legacy of trauma. Joy remains active in Michigan Psychological Association, of which she is a Fellow and past president. She attended the New York City public schools and earned her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College and her doctorate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is on the Founding Committee of the Irene Butter Fund for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (based in Ann Arbor), and is involved in a variety of social justice groups. Joy and her husband Doug, a fellow psychologist, have two grown daughters (both academics in English and creative writing) and one granddaughter.