Children surviving persecution an international study of trauma and healing

Title:

Author:

Kestenberg, Judith S.

ISBN:

9781567508161

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 253 p.)

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Background of Persecution and Its Aftermath; 2 Historical Trauma Psychohistorical Reflections on the Holocaust; 3 Adult Survivors Child Survivors and Children of Survivors; 4 Man Behind Walls; 5 Interviewing for Indemnification; 6 Impact on the Second and Third Generations; 7 Antisemitism and Jewish Identity in Hungary Between 1989 and 1994; 8 Child Survivors A Review; 9 Nazi Fathers; 10 The Persecution of Polish Children; 11 Yugoslavian Child Survivors; 12 German Jewish Identity; 13 Kindertransport A Case Study

Abstract:

The essays in this collection focus on long-term effects of trauma caused by organized persecution - children's experiences of the horror and terror of war, and on the coping mechanisms and reparative experiences, which mitigate and sometimes surmount the trauma.

Subject Term:

Holocaust survivors -- Mental health.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.

Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Age factors.

Children of Holocaust survivors -- Mental health.

National socialism -- Psychological aspects.

Stress in children -- Longitudinal studies.

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Child of Impaired Parents -- psychology.

Child.

Concentration Camps.