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Myra will be conducting two professional staff development workshops and a community-wide program at Jewish Community Services (JCS)  in Baltimore, Maryland on September 13 and 14, 2016. The title of this program is: “Trauma-Informed Care with Aging Holocaust Survivors”....

Resilience: Transcending Victimization  Myra’s TEDxMontreal presentation was posted on Jan 17, 2016. Holocaust survivors are ordinary people who have lived extraordinary lives. They experienced the dark side of humanity and have much to teach us about adaptation, resilience...

Supposedly it takes a village to raise a child. I also learned that it takes a village to help speakers prepare for a TED talk. In May 2015, Katy Yam, co-producer of TEDxMontreal, approached me to meet with her and Christian Porowski, a member of the Curation Team, to discuss a...

In recent weeks all political parties in the Quebec National Assembly expressed solidarity with the Quebec Jewish community and unanimously passed a motion condemning the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and Montreal. In an underground garage in a Montreal suburb,...

Cheryl Bender, coordinator of Jewish West Island Family Institute (WIFI), approached me last August to share her idea to have an artist paint 18 canvases about Holocaust survivor experiences. I liked her idea and wanted to involve members from the Drop-in Centre for Holocaust...

  On February 19, the McGill University School of Social Work hosted the launch of my book to the academic community. I was excited to launch it at the School because it was here that I formulated my ideas and developed the foundation for my life’s work with Holocaust...

InMontreal, an online visual tapestry of the Montreal Jewish community, posted a photo on February 14, 2014 of Myra at the Cummings Centre with  some of the Drop-in members. InMontreal is an initiative of Federation CJA. Here is the link: Drop-in Centre Members with the Author...

Malcolm Clarke’s film, “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved my Life,” is short-listed in the documentary short subject category at the upcoming Academy Awards this March. It’s based on the life of 109-year-old Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer who performed in over 100 concerts...

  Wonderful News! Just received an email from the bookstore. The book is on the shelf! Checked with the publisher. Yes! They released it earlier than expected. The prodigy of my life’s work has left home and ventured out into the world…

Resilience based research tells us that how we deal with adversity is more important than the actual traumatic event. We must keep in mind that in general, people are resilient. I’ve seen this in my work with thousands of Holocaust survivors in my thirty years of working with...