10. Lawrence Langer, Versions of Survival: ?heHolocaust and the Human Spi ri t(AI bany: State Universityof New York Press, 1982), 88.11. Jack Nusan Porter, "Is There a Survivors' Syndrome?"Journal of Psychology and Judaism 6:1(Fall/W<strong>in</strong>ter 1981).12. See, for example, Nuremberg documents that treatthe legal status of Jews <strong>in</strong> Eastern Europe <strong>in</strong> ?heHolocaust: Selected Documents <strong>in</strong> Eighteen Volumes,ed. by John Mendelsohn (New York: Garland Publishers,1982), 199-223.13. HelenFe<strong>in</strong>, Account<strong>in</strong>gfor<strong>Genocide</strong>(New York:Free Press, 1979), 92.14. International Military Tribunal, Document 864-PS,Crimes of War and Aggression, XXVI, 377-383.15. "Heydrich's Instructions to Chiefs of E<strong>in</strong>satzgruppen,September 21, 1939, " A Holocaust Reader,ed. by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (New York: BehrmanHouse, 1976), 59-64.16. Hilberg, "The Statistic" and Destruction, 173.17. Langer, 28.18. Terence Des Pres, ?he Survivor: An Anatomy ofLife <strong>in</strong> the Death Camps (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1976), vii.19. Porter, 33-52; Henry Krystal, ed. , MassivePsychic Trauma (New York: International UniversitiesPress, 1968); for an excellent review of the psychologicalliterature, see Arlene Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, "Holocaust Survivorsand Their Children: A Review of the Cl<strong>in</strong>icalLiterature, " Heal<strong>in</strong>g 7heir Wounds: Psychotherapy withHolocaust Survivors and Their Families (New York:Praeger, 1989).20. William Niederland, "Cl<strong>in</strong>tcal Observations onthe 'Survivor Syndrome'," International Journal ofPsychoanalysis 49 (1968): 313-315.21. Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Mean<strong>in</strong>g(Boston: Beacon Press, 1959).22. Edith Sterba, "The Effect of Persecutions on"Adolescents, <strong>in</strong> Massive Psychic Trauma, ed. byHenry Krystal (New York: International UniversitiesPress, 1968), 51-60.23. Charlotte Delbo, quoted <strong>in</strong> Langer, 88.24. Tadeus Borowski, ?his Way for the Gas, Ladiesand Gentlemen, trans. by Barbara Vedder (New York:Pengu<strong>in</strong> Books, 1976), 48.CHAPTER 4: ~OTATE0 BIBLIOGRAPHYMajor TitlesBrenner, Robert Reeve. 7he Faith and Doubt ofHolocaust Survivors. New York: The Free Press, 1980.LC 79-006764. ISBN 0-029-044-200.Brenner exam<strong>in</strong>es the ways <strong>in</strong> which the Holocaustaffected the religious beliefs of those who survived.Draw<strong>in</strong>g on the responses of almost one thousandsurvivors, Brenner attempted to discover what survivorsthought then, and th<strong>in</strong>k now, about God, the Jewishpeople, and the religious doctr<strong>in</strong>es they had once beenbrought up to believe <strong>in</strong>. Fifty-two percent respondedthat the Holocaust had little or no effect on theirreligious behavior. Others found their faith challenged<strong>in</strong> that they questioned the existence of a god thatwould permit such atrocities.Dimsdale, Joel E. , ed. Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators:Essays on the Nazi Holocaust. Wash<strong>in</strong>gton,New York, and London: Hemisphere, 1980. LC 79-24834. ISBN 0-89116-145-7.Dimsdale's collection of essays is of vary<strong>in</strong>gquality; it conta<strong>in</strong>s some important articles by LeoEit<strong>in</strong>ger, Robert Jay Lifton, and others on psychologicaleffects of survivors' experiences, the impact on childrenof survivors, cop<strong>in</strong>g mechanisms and psychotherapy.The book is divided <strong>in</strong>to three parts —"The Sett<strong>in</strong>g, ""The Victim, " and "The Perpetrator" — and conta<strong>in</strong>san excellent historical article by Raul Hilberg on "TheNature of the Process, " excerpts from the diaries ofGoebbels and Hoess (commandant of Auschwitz), andessays by George Mosse on Weimar <strong>in</strong>tellectuals andthe rise of Nazism and by John Ste<strong>in</strong>er on "The SSYesterday and Today: A Sociopsychological View. "Epste<strong>in</strong>, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversationswith Sons and Daughters of Survivors. New York:G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1979. LC 78-023429. ISBN 0-14-011284-7.72 GENOCIDE
Epste<strong>in</strong>'s was the first book to deal with thesituation and phenomenon of the second generation.Much of her book is autobiographical, mov<strong>in</strong>g backand forth between her own story and those of othersshe <strong>in</strong>terviewed <strong>in</strong> Canada, Israel, and the UnitedStates. She found consistent patterns of behavior<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g guilt, anxiety, and the need to protectparents.Her examples demonstrate that some survivors placedextraord<strong>in</strong>ary burdens of guilt on their children, oftenshrouded <strong>in</strong> silence, because of their experiences; thatsome, children of survivors experienced deep-rootedanxieties and fears that derived from their unique status;and that <strong>in</strong> most cases the guilt and anxiety wereaccompanied by exaggerated needs to protect or shieldtheir parents.4444Hass, Aaron. ln the Shadow of the Holocaust: TheSecond Generation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UniversityPress, 1990. LC 90-55124. ISBN 0-8014-2477-1.Draw<strong>in</strong>g on <strong>in</strong>terviews and survey materials, Hassprovides an <strong>in</strong>formed account of the experiences of thesecond generation <strong>in</strong> terms of depression, guilt, anger,feel<strong>in</strong>gs of be<strong>in</strong>g different, and difficulty <strong>in</strong> separat<strong>in</strong>gfrom parents. Hass devotes particular attention to howmuch survivors talked about their experiences to theirchildren and how this affected the children. He alsoexam<strong>in</strong>es the attitude of the second generation to suchissues as anti-Semitism, Jewish identity, Israel, God,and <strong>in</strong>termarriage.4454Krystal, Henry, ed. Massive Psychic Trauma. NewYork: International Universities Press, 1968. LC 68-29657. ISBN 0-8236-8146-7.Although it has received criticism <strong>in</strong> the last tenyears, Krystal's psychoanalytic work on massivepsychic trauma cont<strong>in</strong>ues to offer a start<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>t forthe study of the effects of the Holocaust on victims whosurvived. He has identified, along with WilliamNiederland, a "survivor syndrome" which <strong>in</strong>cludesvary<strong>in</strong>g degrees of avoidance, depression, <strong>in</strong>trusion ofmemories, and other symptoms.* 4. 6 ~Langer, Lawrence. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ru<strong>in</strong>sof Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.LC 90-044768. ISBN 0-300-04966-8.Langer cont<strong>in</strong>ues his earlier thesis (see 4. 7) nowsupported by his extensive view<strong>in</strong>g of the videotapes<strong>in</strong> the Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimoniesat Yale. Langer here posits five types of memory:"deep memory, " "anguished memory, " "humiliatedmemory, " ""ta<strong>in</strong>tedmemory, and "unheroicmemory.""Deep memory" refers to the coexistence of "twoadjacent worlds that occasionally <strong>in</strong>trude on eachother"; "anguished memory" disallows any closure orresolution of pa<strong>in</strong>ful recollections as it "imprisons theconsciousness it should be liberat<strong>in</strong>g"; each of the otherthree deals with various aspects of humiliat<strong>in</strong>g experiencesor recollections which survivors f<strong>in</strong>d shamefulor "ta<strong>in</strong>ted. " For another <strong>in</strong>terpretation, see 2. 134.~ 4. 7 *Langer, Lawrence. Versions of Survival: 7heHolocaustand the Human Spirit. Albany: State University of NewYork Press, 1982. LC 81-14560. ISBN 0-87395-583-8.Langer has relentlessly pursued the strands ofHolocaust narratives and memoirs to rebut any sangu<strong>in</strong>etheories of <strong>in</strong>spiration or tutelary conclusions— particularly those of Frankl and Des Pres.Langer argues that any value judgments based on themorality of civilized life are spurious when applied tolife as it was lived <strong>in</strong> the concentration and deathcamps. He argues that victims of the Holocaust dailywere presented with "choiceless choices, " alternativecourses of action <strong>in</strong> which equally horrible endsresulted. Langer's is perhaps the most important workon survivor testimonies. It is a sem<strong>in</strong>al and uncompromis<strong>in</strong>glyhonest <strong>in</strong>terpretation of survivors' accounts.4480Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Trans. byRaymond Rosenthal. New York and London: SummitBooks, 1988. LC 87-018052. ISBN 0-671-63280-9.In his last book before his death, Primo Levioffers his f<strong>in</strong>al penetrat<strong>in</strong>g, sear<strong>in</strong>g reflections on thenature of the survivor's experience. Particularlypowerful and suggestive are his concept of "the grayzone, " the area between moral judgments <strong>in</strong> which theexperiences of the victims become blurred with thebehavior of the perpetrators, experiences for whichthere can be no mediation and no relief, and hisdiscussions of the ta<strong>in</strong>ted lives full of paradoxicalshame. His is perhaps the most disturb<strong>in</strong>g and necessaryof survivor essays.4494Moskovitz, Sarah. Love Despite Hate: Child Survivorsof the Holocaust and Their Adult Lives. New York:Schocken, 1983. LC 81-084112. ISBN 0-805-238-018.At the end of the war, the British governmentallowed one thousand child survivors to enter England.The German refugee Alice Goldberger established andran a home for some of these children <strong>in</strong> Surrey.Moskovitz <strong>in</strong>terviewed twenty-four of these survivors,most of them citizens of the U. S. or Israel. They stillsuffer cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g feel<strong>in</strong>gs of loss and outsiderhood butthey are reasonably well-adjusted and actively <strong>in</strong>volved<strong>in</strong> communal affairs.The Victims Who Survived 73
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