When speaking with Robert Bosnak, you are quickly enveloped in the warmth of someone who has walked a remarkable path, shaped by history, adversity, and a lifelong curiosity about the depths of the human psyche. Born in post-war Holland in 1948 to Jewish parents who had survived the Holocaust by escaping to Switzer-land, Bosnak’s early years were shadowed by stories unspoken and traumas inherited.

Growing up in Rotterdam, a city marked by the scars of war, young Robert was acutely aware of absence—an entire Jewish community reduced to a fraction of its former self. Yet, amid this backdrop, one powerful relationship would profoundly shape him. Annie, an older woman who lived behind his family’s home, a Holocaust survivor who had endured Auschwitz and the heartbreaking loss of her daughter, became a formative figure. “She was the first humanist that I ever met,” Bosnak recalls. ….

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