Research on consequences of the Holocaust

Clinical Heterogeneity in Children of Holocaust Survivors

y Five decades after the worst human-made tragedy in history, there has been a consistent interest in the V social, psychological, and medical consequences of the Holocaust. Naturally, such interest has been fueled by the awareness that research data obtained from the study of Holocaust survivors and their offspring can be applied to victims of other massive psychic trauma. Intergenerational tr...

The consequences of the Holocaust on child survivors and children of survivors.

Surviving the Holocaust: a meta-analysis of the long-term sequelae of a genocide.

The current set of meta-analyses elucidates the long-term psychiatric, psychosocial, and physical consequences of the Holocaust for survivors. In 71 samples with 12,746 participants Holocaust survivors were compared with their counterparts (with no Holocaust background) on physical health, psychological well-being, posttraumatic stress symptoms, psychopathological symptomatology, cognitive func...

The Past and the Future of Holocaust Research: From Disparate Sources to an Integrated European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

In order to keep remembering why it was judged so important to build a new Europe 'out of the crematoria of Auschwitz', the 'vital link' between Europe's past and Europe's present should, according to the British historian Tony Judt, be taught over and over again (cf. Judt 2005: 830 f.). Every generation of European historians should re-interpret the message of the Second World War and of the H...

Psychopathology and other health dimensions among the offspring of Holocaust survivors: results from the Israel National Health Survey.

BACKGROUND Holocaust survivors show long-lasting psychopathological wounds and scars. The experiences they endured during WWII were thought to impair their parental functioning. A trans-generational transmission of the trauma has been reported by clinicians and by researchers exploring the vulnerability of the adult offspring when facing major stressful events. However, the two previous epidemi...