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Wed 27th May 2026, 12 pm – 1:30 pm

THE SHADOW OF 1945 IN 1967
Memory, Survival, and the Six-Day War
0Presentation by TAMMAR STEIN, Author and Researcher

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THE SHADOW OF 1945 IN 1967
Memory, Survival, and the Six-Day War
This presentation examines the deep psychological link between the Holocaust and the 1967 Six-Day War, illustrating how an existential dread of a second genocide defined the “waiting period” leading up to the conflict. With Holocaust survivors constituting nearly a third of the Israeli population at the time, Tammar’s research—highlighted by intimate interviews with her father—explores the transition of trauma from survivors to the second generation. By weaving together the harrowing emotional toll on a grandfather who feared history was repeating itself and the heavy mantle of “protector” assumed by his soldier son, the study reveals how the national memory of 1945 directly dictated the collective mindset and survival instincts of 1967.

TAMMAR STEIN, Author and Researcher
Tammar Stein is the author of multiple children’s books, including The Six-Day Hero, a middle-grade novel about the Six-Day War that was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a PJ Our Way Selection, and a Sydney Taylor Award Honour Book. Her follow-up novel, Beni’s War, won the Middle East Book Award and received a starred review from School Library Journal. Her books have been named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, a Virginia Readers’ Choice, a Texas high school summer reading book, and a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
Tammar has lived on four continents and in six countries. Her books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian and Ukrainian. She lives in New Zealand.

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