Child Survivors of the Holocaust (Paperback)

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"Each Holocaust survivor has a different story to tell. The uniqueness of this volume, however, is that the ten survivors whose stories are analyzed here were very young children during the Holocaust, most having been under the age of ten by the end of the war. Their accounts of physical and sexual abuse, as well as the psychological trauma of separation, are rife with raw emotion and offer distressing evidence of the role that childhood trauma can play in adult life. Valent, a noted Australian psychiatrist who is himself a child survivor of the Holocaust, provides professional analysis and commentary for each case, something that is often absent in Holocaust memoirs... "Child Survivors offers an excellent overview that speaks not only to Holocaust victims but to comtemporary traumatic situations. This first U.S. edition is recommended for all academic libraries."
-Library Journal
..." "Child Survivors offers an excellent overview that speaks not only to Holocaust victims but to comtemporary traumatic situations. This first U.S. edition is recommended for all academic libraries."
-Library Journal
"Paul Valent has marshaled the voices of ten such child survivors. Their accounts are full of heartbreaking salient details...fascinating reading and will be seen as possessing universal import.."
-Thomas Keneally, author of "Schindler's List
..."this is not a theortical book about trauma and its lifelong effects with occassional case material. On the contrary, this is a book focused on presenting the intertwined past and present of 10 representative adults who experienced varying degrees of exposure to the Holocaust as children....Is Valent's decision to focus the bookprimarily on narrative a sound one? I think so. This way it allows the book to serve audiences who might otherwise overlook it because of its discipline or theoretical bent. In its current form, however, we may ask do we need yet another book about the Holocaust and trauma? After all, there are elegant spokespersons for the Holocaust experience and its impact. My answer here too would be affirmative. Yes, we need to know more, to document more, and to listen more - both in the trauma domain in general, and regarding the Holocaust in particular.."
-Death Studies, 2003


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The stories in this book contribute to questions concerning the roots of morality, memory, resilience, and specific scientific queries of the origins of psychosomatic symptoms, psychiatric illness, and trans-generational transmission of trauma.

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