What was it like to grow up with parents who survived the Holocaust?

Who is responsible for ensuring the Holocaust and its generational impact are remembered? 

Traces answers these questions, giving voice to the resilient "Second Generation"
– children of survivors –
as they share their parents' survival stories
and reveal the inherited effects 
of Holocaust survivorship. 

What We Do

■ Traces, documentary film broadens our understanding of the Holocaust’s generational impact

■ In Traces, we hear directly from children of Holocaust survivors, known as the Second Gen. They tell their parents’ remarkable survival stories and explores what it was like to grow up with parents who survived history’s darkest of evils

■ Traces expands awareness of the Holocaust’s ongoing effects and inspires us to ensure these stories are remembered

Our Goals

■ We will extend its reach across the globe by providing translations
 and subtitles in multiple languages

■ We will create Traces educational materials, offering deeper understanding of this difficult topic

  • "This film was so well done and captured the deep feelings of what is was like to grow up as a child of survivor. Each person shed light on their parents’ life and how it emotionally impacted them."

    Barbara Goldstein, Holocaust Education Resource Council Director and Child of Holocaust Survivors

  • "The testimony is incredibly moving, the words blended with the images are beautiful, poignant, searingly painful, uplifting and motivating. The major accomplishment of this video is to convey the pain of survivors and 2nd generation survivors and to show (perhaps uniquely - because I haven't seen anything like it) how the Holocaust had many impacts beyond the horror of the camps."

    Rebecca Jefferson, PhD, University of Florida Price Library of Judaica Curator

  • "This is a film like no other I have ever experienced! It is so dense in researched information and invaluable 2nd Gen testimony. Thank you for making this important film so the survivor stories will not pass with their passing."

    Nancy Pettus, former Director of Holocaust Education at the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • "On UN World Holocaust Remembrance Day, OneJax is pleased to support Traces, Voices of the Second Generation.  It is important to always remember how evil can take root by targeting a population of people.  In remembering we vow to fight against it ever happening again. "

    Kyle Reese, Executive Director
    
OneJax Institute | 
University of North Florida