The Role Of Trauma In Children Of Holocaust Survivors

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Seventy years after the end of World War II, children of Holocaust survivors are now middle-aged or older, becoming parents and grandparents themselves. While some were able to transform the legacy of the Holocaust into post-traumatic growth, others are still struggling with the effects of the war as if they were disposed to suffer the curse of Holocaust trauma. These more vulnerable sons and daughters of survivors have Holocaust associations throughout their lives. About a third of them suffer from manifest psychopathology when a new trauma awakens the old one. During these periods, they have nightmares and flashbacks of things they never experienced. Daily events remind them of the horrors of the war and the agony their parents suffered.
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