1. Judith Kestenberg founded the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, which conducted extensive interviews with over 1,500 survivors worldwide.
16 Facts About Judith Kestenberg
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Judith Kestenberg studied medicine at the University of Vienna and specialized in neurology and psychiatry.
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Concerned with the persecution of the Socialist Party of which she was a member, and interested in continuing her studies, Judith Kestenberg emigrated in 1937 to New York City, where she worked with Paul Ferdinand Schilder at Bellevue Hospital in child psychiatry.
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In 1942, Judith Kestenberg married the lawyer Milton Judith Kestenberg, who had left Poland in 1939.
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Judith Kestenberg was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and worked at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
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Judith Kestenberg began research in the early 1950s with the systematic observation of infants and their movement patterns.
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Judith Kestenberg began a long distance correspondence course with Warren Lamb in England to learn more about movement study.
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In 1980, Judith Kestenberg invited psychiatrists and movement specialists to join with her in forming the Sands Point Movement Study group.
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Judith Kestenberg recognized that these individuals were too young to fully remember their experiences, yet were traumatized by them.
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Judith Kestenberg developed a system using reimagining kinesthetic sensations, such as of being held, to help adult survivors remember their parents who were murdered during the Holocaust.
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Judith Kestenberg was co-founder of the Hidden Child Foundation as well.
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Judith Kestenberg's work led to greater recognition of child survivor syndromes and posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Judith Kestenberg became involved in working with the children of survivors, investigating the after effects of violent experiences on following generations.
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Judith Kestenberg pointed out that this phenomenon occurs in the situation of children of the perpetrators.
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Judith Kestenberg wrote several Holocaust related books for children, one of which was expressly for children of perpetrators.
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Milton and Judith Kestenberg provided the initial funding necessary to plan the First International Gathering of Hidden Children, co-sponsored with the ADL, which happened in 1991.