"In this intensely fascinating book, Davidson succeeds in conveying
a systematic understanding of trauma and survival as a whole, while
emphasizing individual difference."
--"Jerusalem Post"
The effects of the Holocaust on those who survived it are
immeasurable. How can one experience the trauma of the
concentration camps--being reduced to a helpless witness of the
brutality of torture, medical experiments, and execution of those
around you--how can one survive this and remain the same? In many
ways the Holocaust has drastically effected those who survived, and
in Holding on to Humanity Shamai Davidson explores the complex
results of this dehumanizing experience.
As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Israel,
Davidson spent 30 years working with this special group, trying to
understand the nature of their experience. Uniquely skillful in
evoking from survivors their most silenced stories, Davidson
concentrated on giving them voice and recorded memory. Davidson
worked on this book for many years--since 1972 it was a dream of
his to write an authoritative work on the life experiences of the
Holocaust survivors and their families--but unfortunately Davidson
died in 1986 at the age of 59. This book is the result of extensive
effort by Israel W. Charny to complete the project at the request
of Davidson's widow, Jenny Davidson.
Shamai Davidson was born in 1926 in Dublin. In his youth he
witnessed from afar the Nazi rise to power and the death of his
aunts and cousins in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, and the gas
chambers of Treblinka. Davidson studied medicine at the University
of Glasgow and completed his psychiatric residency at Oxford
University Medical School in1955, after which Davidson secured a
position as a psychiatrist at Talbieh Psychiatric Hospital in
Jerusalem. It is at this point that he encountered the subject that
he would pursue for the remainder of his life. Davidson cofounded
the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide along with Israel W.
Charny and Elie Wiesel, and worked as a psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, treating Holocaust survivors, until his death.
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