In The Rip­ple Eclipse: Turn­ing the Tide of Inher­it­ed Trau­ma, Audrey Hyams Romoff offers a raw, hon­est account of grow­ing up as the daugh­ter of one of the youngest chil­dren to sur­vive Auschwitz. Rarely spo­ken about, the Holocaust’s shad­ow hov­ers over four gen­er­a­tions of women in her fam­i­ly. In 2008, Hyams Romoff ​’s moth­er chose to end her life in the garage of the fam­i­ly home. Her father also passed away, but the cir­cum­stances remain a mys­tery. In her mem­oir, Hyams Romoff illu­mi­nates a ques­tion cen­tral to Jew­ish life today: how do we assim­i­late the ongo­ing rip­ples of our inher­it­ed trau­ma with­out allow­ing them to eclipse our capac­i­ty for joy? In 2024, with a PBS film crew in tow, Hyams Romoff and her daugh­ter, Lind­say, trav­el to Auschwitz to mark the camp’s 80th anniver­sary and con­front their family’s his­to­ry togeth­er. The jour­ney reveals long-held fam­i­ly secrets, the mir­a­cle of her mother’s sur­vival, and a com­mit­ment to trans­form her family’s pain into com­pas­sion, pur­pose, and action.