Anna Ornstein is a Hungarian-American Auschwitz survivor, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, author, speaker, and scholar.
14 Facts About Anna Ornstein
Anna Ornstein was reunited with Paul Ornstein, whom she had met several years before and who had survived the Holocaust.
Anna Ornstein served as a long-time Professor and Emerita Professor of Child Psychiatry at University of Cincinnati Medical School and later as a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Anna Ornstein was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and a Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Anna Ornstein has written over 100 publications that cover a wide range of topics, including the interpretive process in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child psychotherapy, treatment of children and families, and recovery after traumatic experiences.
Anna Ornstein is an educator on the Holocaust and talks to universities, secondary schools, organizations, synagogues, and groups around the world about the Holocaust, her experiences, and anti-Semitism.
Anna Ornstein especially has a presence within the Boston area and has spoken to students at colleges including Tufts University, Northeastern University, and Brandeis University.
Anna Ornstein has been interviewed by The Washington Post, featured in The Jewish Journal, interviewed on Boston's National Public Radio station WGBH, and featured in numerous other publications.
Anna Ornstein served as a staff member of Facing History and Ourselves and the Terezin Music Foundation.
Anna Ornstein has been the recipient of numerous awards, related to both her work in medicine and in Holocaust education:.
Dr Anna Ornstein felt it was urgent to respond, both to the specific events and to the general political situation in our country.
Anna Ornstein met with Reading town officials and teachers and helped organize a group called Reading Embraces Diversity.
Anna Ornstein talked to several hundred sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in Reading schools, presenting a piece on Kristallnacht that looked at similarities and differences between the situation in Europe in the 1930s and the current situation in the United States.
Anna Ornstein met Paul Ornstein, whom she would marry years later, as a young girl and they fell in love.