Children of Purgatory: Reflections On the Concentration Camp Survival Syndrome

PSYCHOLOGICAL aberrations that occurred in inmates of concentration campshave received a good deal of attention in recent psycho-social literature (Eitinger, 1965). Although it has been over twenty-five years since the liberation of the Nazi persecution victims, many of these people are still suffering from the effects of this massive psychic traumatization (Niederland, 1964). The international literature of the past twenty-five years covers a number of articles on the after-effects of Nazi