Susan’s Generations Presentation

This presentation includes the stories and photos of Margit Haas and David Robinson, Hungarian Holocaust survivors and parents of the speaker. In addition to their stories, there is a discussion of the effect of parental trauma on children of survivors, and how this translates to all children whose parents have experienced trauma. Students are encouraged to speak up to bullying, and to consider the possibility that classmates may be affected by parental trauma.

About Susan

Susan Hawkins is a retired professor of physician assistant studies at Chatham University. She has done years of work on the relationship between her parents’ trauma and her own life, as well as some study of epigenetics – the cellular effects of intergenerational trauma.