When a terrible adverse event such as the Holocaust occurs, people find that their world no longer makes sense, and their fundamental assumptions about the meaning of life are challenged. To cope with such negative circumstances, people engage in meaning-making. For some, creating a new life out of the ashes of the past became imperative, demonstrating resilience towards their devastating experience and emphasizing an intense drive to build and achieve. But do the offspring of survivors mirror the attitudes of their parents and grandparents? In the second chapter of this series, Johnny Weiss and his son Rami Weiss will share how their upbringing, influenced by the Holocaust survivors, guides them through everyday challenges.

Music by Di Gasn Trio.

Cover by @annet_bad

The interview of Lotte Weiss is from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. For more information: http://sfi.usc.edu/