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Why borrowed trauma becomes personal

Every Holocaust memorial day I get physically sick even though I'm not Jewish but my neighbor growing up was a survivor and somehow it feels like it's mine too.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Proximity to historical grief can create unexpected inheritance in non-biological relationships.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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