Newsletter 2010-11 this is the one - Psychodrama Institut für Europa

Newsletter für alle Mitglieder des PIfE /Newsletter to all PIfE members - 2010/2011 -
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I was deeply impressed by the whole workshop and honored
to meet people with family stories from both sides. I
have a depp admiration for both German and Jewish culture
and for me it was amzing being among you.
The support I got from the group during the workshop is
hard to describe; I remember how you giuded me, encouraged
me and helped me fulfill long-awaited inner experiences,
how feely I cried (and laughed), how intense and new
everything was for me. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve changed a
lot since then.
Sima Manor (Israel):
A few months after the workshop, I’m beginning to figure
out why I needed to go to Auschwitz/Birkenau and this is
giving me a whole new perspective on my life and a new
direction in my therapy process. Thank you Hilde, Ya’acov,
thank you all!
It is a pleasure for me to write for this article. I miss you so
much.
When I heard Ya'acov, incidentally, telling someone about
this workshop, I joined immediately. It was good for me to
be in a small group, 13 members; it was good for me that it
was international, not only jews and germans; it was good
for me to have in the group jews and gentiles.
I was most moved by the ceremonies, which each one chose
to make in the camp in the second day, and I had the
wonderful opportunity to use the medium of psychodrama,
that was unknown to me, to do very deep work on my very
early period-of-separation from my father who came back
sick from the war, and to have him back inside me as a good
imago. This internal work could be done only in Auswitz,
where most of my family was murdured, with the most
sensitive support of you, the members of the group and
Hilde and Ya'acov, the leaders.
This workshop, with its special structure, also opened
possibility for me to go to Germany.Thank you all.
Petra (Deutschland):
Eine kurze Geschichte vom Reden und Schweigen
Ich war 2008 das erste Mal beim Workshop. Das Thema
Spuren des Holocaust in der Gegenwart und die Art und
Weise, wie Yaacov und Hilde das Thema umrissen haben,
zog mich wie ein Magnet an. Die Technik des
Psychodramas kannte ich vorher nicht.
Schon zu Beginn der Vorstellungrunde 2008 bin ich sehr
aufgeregt. Ich stelle mich vor als Enkelin eines SS-Täters.
Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass ich von der Vergangenheit
meines Großvaters erzähle - doch etwas ist anders als sonst,
ich merke, dass das Erzählte gehört wird. Es wird gehört
von Menschen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen und
Petra (Germany)
A short story of talk and silence
For the first time I took part in the workshop in 2008. The
subject „Traces of the Holocaust in the Presence“ and the
way Yaacov and Hilde defined the issue, attracted me like a
magnet. With the method of psychodrama I was not familiar
before.
Already at the beginning of the round of introductions I am
very excited. I introduce myself as the granddaughter of an
SS-perpetrator. It is not the first time for me to talk about
the past of my grandfather- but something is different than
before; I notice that what is said is being heard. It is being
heard by people with very different experiences and backgrounds.
I have a distinct sense how much this story has
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