Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By the end of the Second World War, approximately 1.5 million Jewish children had been killed by the Nazis. In this book, ten child survivors tell their stories. Paul Valent, himself a child survivor and psychiatrist, explores the deepest memories of those he interviewed with sensitivity and insight. Their experiences range from loss of family to living in hiding. Child Survivors of the Holocaust preserves and brings together the personal narratives and the therapist’s perspective in a powerful chronicle. The stories in this book shed light on important questions about resilience, memory, morality, trauma-related symptoms, and their passage to subsequent generations. Child Survivors of the Holocaust speaks to and illuminates the consequences of child abuse and trauma whenever and wherever they occur.