Review by Choice Review
Concentration camp inmates were the first to be exposed to civilian annihilation under the most bizarre circumstances: gas chambers and crematoria. Gill records the memoirs of some 200 Jewish and non-Jewish survivors and explores the postwar difficulties of readjustment. This is a Holocaust/post-Holocaust collection; and it does well to remind the reader that 45 years after WW II the victims still suffer while too often the perpetrators have prospered. This work, with an informative and nontechnical introduction, will be of value to students of history, psychology, and literature, as well as to friends and relatives of survivors. Although the book deals with a specific kind of post-trauma syndrome, examples and principles appear to be applicable generally to the psychoses of hostage victims and demobilized military. Thus it should be useful to therapists in a wide range of ancillary areas. A valuable addition to public and academic libraries. -S. Bowman, University of Cincinnati
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