The recently published in the Jewish Lights Publishing book "God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grand Children of Holocaust Survivors" dealing with Holocaust from the perspective of the children and grandchildren of survivors and focuses on how the memories have influenced their lives. Articles, written by more than 90 Jewish personalities – theologians, scholars, authors, artists and personalities from politics and media – from 16 countries were collected and edited by Menachem Z. Rosensaft. The foreword is by the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
Julius Meinl V, president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), contributed an important chapter to the book. His grandfather Julius Meinl III was forced to flee to England after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany because his wife was Jewish. The maternal grandparents and the mother of Julius Meinl V had to flee from Nazi rule. After the war, the family returned to Austria, where Julius Meinl V was born in 1959. In his article he reflects on how his emotional inheritance has affected his childhood and personality and how about sensitive issues from the past long the cloak of silence was wrapped: "Only one generation after the horrors of Holocaust we suffered the second indignity: we were denied the right to grieve for those we have lost... The Jewish refugees and survivors, we were told, especially those who had fled and subsequently returned to Austria, had been sitting in leather armchairs in exile and hadn't experienced the real trauma of the war.” Put an end to this injustice and other similar stereotypes associated with the history of the Holocaust, this book is intended.