This book offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora. It is a most moving account of the desperate struggles of these survivors to overcome their horrendous experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and their subsequent attempts to revive their lives after the Second World War. Hillel Klein, the author, was himself one of these Holocaust survivors. Later, as a psychoanalyst, Klein interviewed survivors in Israel and the United States of America and evaluated the consequences of the Holocaust and its aftermath from a psychoanalytic point of view which, together with his own memories contained in this book, gives it a special depth and contributes to making it a most moving account.
About the author
Hillel Klein was born in Krakow on 20 March 1923. He was 16 years old when the Germans marched into Poland. After a few months he joined the resistance and went underground. In 1942 he was captured by the Germans and locked up. He survived the horrors of several camps and ended up in Theresienstadt, where he was liberated by the Red Army at the age of 22. He subsequently studied medicine and became a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, practicing in Jerusalem. He died in 1985.
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