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The Clinical Aftereffects of the Holocaust in Survivors and Their Offspring

No person could have survived Hitler’s concentration camps an emerged totally unchanged, clinically speaking.
“Survivor syndrome” / predominant symptoms
Certain aftereffects, such as those caused by persecution, incarceration, and merciless torture rarely heal without adequate treatment, and even with that treatment the patient rarely heals completely, especially if he or she is a sole survivor of the horrors of the Nazis.
Complaints and medical condition
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