Holocaust Survivors And Their Descendants Share Generational Trauma

Studies support the idea that the effects of trauma can reverberate down generations through epigenetics.

Sometimes history doesn't seem so far away, especially for those who lived it. 

101-year-old Esther Koisner celebrates Shabbat every week with her children, her grandchildren and if they're around, her great grandchildren. But she's easily transported to a different home, one she lived in nearly nine decades ago in Colon, Germany — one Nazis once stormed into, looking to take away her brother.  

"They ripped the child out of the mother's arms and smashed his head against the wall, killing the child instantly," said her son Ed.