Spark of Inspiration
Join Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith in a conversation with psychologist, author, writer and Holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer
The April 27 event was initiated to celebrate Harvard making the Shoah Foundation’s visual history archive available to its community.
In March of 1989, Dr. Sharon Aroian-Poiser traveled to Armenia to help children recover from the trauma of the 6.8 earthquake that crumbled 250 villages and killed tens of thousands of people just a few months before.
But the children, following the lead of the adults around them, remained silent -- until the day Aroian-Poiser pulled out her tape-recorder and demonstrated how it worked.
Almost immediately, the children lined up, and in formal recitation, one after another, told the tape recorder about the day their world collapsed.