The Generations After, Inc.

Who We Are

The Generations After, Inc. was created in 1979 as an organization of children of Holocaust survivors in the Greater Washington area.

It has expanded over the years to include grandchildren of survivors and survivors themselves with the merging of The Generation After, Inc. and Jewish Survivors of the Shoah and Friends of Greater Washington in 2015.

We are also affiliated with Generations of the Shoah International (GSI), a worldwide umbrella group for second generation activities.

Educational programs
Social gatherings
Holocaust remembrance activities
Advocacy activities
Programs with authors, artists, scholars, politicians, and experts in the field
Social and inter-generational opportunities
Sharing Holocaust-related information and resources

Board and Officers: There is a president, vice president, a treasurer, a secretary and a 15- member Board.

As an all volunteer group, The Generations After, Inc. is always seeking new members and volunteers to help run the group and its activities. To volunteer, please call 240-396-6467 or email generationafterdc@gmail.com.

Remember a Child provides pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah families with the name of a child Shoah victim who was annihilated before he or she could become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Families receive a Certificate of Remembrance to document this “match,” bibliographic/references, citations, or links to enable families to conduct even more in-depth independent research. The current generation can thereby commemorate the lives of those one-and-a-half million children whose lives were so tragically curtailed. To learn more about the Remember a Child program click here. Read a profile of this remarkable program in the Washington Jewish Week.

Read about a recent success for Remember a Child in the Baltimore Jewish Week.

How One Young Holocaust Victim's Memory Forged a Community Across America

A series of uncanny coincidences draws an eruv of living memory around the soul of one little girl who perished in the Holocaust.

by Susan L.M. Goldberg, PJ Media - Click here for the full article

Register: June 22-24, 2021 - screening of acclaimed German-Danish film, Winter Journey, based on Martin Goldsmith's book, Inextinguishable Symphony. The film chronicles his musician parents' Holocaust experiences through documentary and fiction styles. It reveals their history in the Judischer Culturbund, a Nazi creation and the only option available for Jewish musicians. June 27, 3:00pm EDT - discussion with Goldsmith, a Sirius classical music announcer, filmmaker Anders Ostergaard and Bob Edwards, Peabody award-winning NPS journalist will moderator. Register for the screening and the discussion here.

Book Group Meeting – The Generation After, Inc. The next book group will meet on July 25, 2021, 10am EDT. The book is Resilience: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph Over Evil by Dr.Judy Stone, a Generations After member. RSVP to attend: generationafterdc@gmail.com.

Writing Group . GenAfter is hosting 2 Writing Groups with mentor Gina Roitman aimed at learning to transform memory into memoir. For more information on joining one of the Writing Groups which will begin a new session in March, contact us at generationafterdc@gmail.com.

Advocacy - Generations After supports Blue Card, a long time New York-based Holocaust survivor support agency that provides direct aide to needy survivors in 35 states. For more information, contact generationafterdc@gmail.com.