As the children of Holocaust survivors reach adulthood they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem because, during their childhood, their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them so much of their own trauma, investing them with all their memories and hopes, so that they become the living memorial candles of the title. Memorial Candles combines verbatim transcriptions of dialogues in individual and group psychotherapy sessions, with analysis of dreams, fantasies and childhood memories. Starting with the disruption of the inter-generational chain...