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Why family silence around trauma creates urgency

My mother survived the Holocaust but won't talk about it and now she's dying and I feel like crucial family history will disappear forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Approaching death intensifies the need to preserve unspoken generational experience before it's permanently lost.

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