Audrey Hyams Romoff: How Childhood Trauma Changes DNA

Audrey Hyams Romoff: How Childhood Trauma Changes DNA

April 17, 2026 · 44 min

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Audrey Hyams Romoff discusses how her mother's experiences in Auschwitz influenced her family's legacy of trauma.

Audrey Hyams Romoff's mother was one of the youngest children to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp, liberated at just 8 years old — and that childhood trauma shaped four generations of women in ways Audrey never fully understood until decades later. Audrey Hyams Romoff is the founder of Overcat PR and author of The Ripple Eclipse, a memoir tracing four generations of women in her family and the inherited trauma that runs through all of them. She recently traveled to Auschwitz with PBS...

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