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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish
experience during World War II. It is unique in that it features
different aspects of the interviewer-interviewee relationship. The
contributions are personal as well as analytical in nature, and the
narrative is an informed psychological analysis. The work should be
of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians,
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and
trauma researchers as well as survivors.
This international study of children's experiences of organized
persecution, explores the Holocaust and its aftermath as
prototypical social trauma. Traumatized persons' feelings of shame
and guilt as well as a sense of being different may prevail, and
they may attribute great power to others, seek safety in isolation,
or search for a rescuer. Nevertheless, as a group, the child
survivors of the Holocaust have achieved remarkable success as
adults. Drawing on the wealth of personal and interview
information, the contributors create a synthesis of personal
history and psychological analysis. Adult memories of traumatic
childhood experiences are accompanied by discussions of their
effects and by analysis of the various coping mechanisms used to
establish a viable post-war existence. These accounts are
distinguished by the fact that they are by and about individuals
who grew up in undistinguished Christian and Jewish families; not
those of prominent figures or resistance fighters or rescuers. All
experienced unrest and many suffered trauma during the Nazi regime,
as a result of the war, and during the post-war turbulence. An
important collection for students and scholars of the Holocaust and
for those professionals in a position to help surviving victims of
other organized persecution, civil violence, strife, and abuse.
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