Some Relevant Readings on Holocaust Survivors
October 2008
from Leah Kaufman
Aarts, P., & Op den Velde, W. (1996). Prior traumatization and the process of aging. Traumatic Stress. A. M. B. van der Kolk, & L. Weisaeth (Eds.). New York, Guildford Press: pp. 359-377.
Adams, K., E. Mann, et al. (1994). “Holocaust Survivors in a Jewish Nursing Home: Building Trust and Enhancing Control.” Clinical Gerontologist 14(3).
AMCHA. (2005). “National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation.
Appelberg, E. (1972). Holocaust Survivors And Their Children. New York, Federation of Jewish Philanthropy.
Bar-On, D. (1996a). Attempting To Overcome The Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma: Dialogue Between Descendants Of Victims And Of Perpetrators. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Bar-On, D. (1999). The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma, Central European University Press.
Bar-On, D., J. Eland, et al. (1998). “Multigenerational Perspectives on Coping with the Holocaust Experience: An Attachment Perspective for Understanding the Developmental Sequelae of Trauma across Generations.” International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 22(2): 315-338.
Bar-Tur, L., Levy-Shiff, R. (2000). “Coping with Losses and Past Trauma in Old Age: The Separation-Individuation Perspective.” Journal of Personal & Interpersonal Loss(5): 263-281.
Baranowsky, A. B., M. Young, et al. (1998). “PTSD Transmission: A Review Of Secondary Traumatization In Holocaust Survivor Families.” Canadian Psychology 39(4): 247-256.
Barocas, H. A. and C. B. Barocas (1973). “Manifestations Of Concentration Camp Effects On The Second Generation.” American Journal of Psychiatry 130(7): 820-821.
Barocas, H. A. and C. B. Barocas ((1973).). “Manifestations Of Concentration Camp Effects On The Second Generation.” American Journal of Psychiatry 130(7): 820-821.
Berger, D. M. (1975). “The Survivor Syndrome: A Problem of Nosology and Treatment.” American Journal of Psychotherapy.
Bergman, M. and M. Jucovy, Eds. (1982). Generations of the Holocaust. New York, Basic Books.
Brandler, S. (2000). “Practice issues: Understanding aged Holocaust survivors.” Families in Society 81(1): 66-75.
Brom, D., N. Durst, et al. (2002). “The Phenomenology of Posttraumatic Distressin Older Adult Holocaust Survivors.” Journal of Clinical Geropyschology 8(3): 189-201.
Busuttil, W. (2003). “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Elderly.” Old Age Psychiatrist(27).
Chodoff, P. (1997). “The Holocaust and its effects on survivors: An overview.” Political Psychology 18(1): 147-157.
Clarke, D. E., Colantonto, A., Heslegrave, R., Rhodes, A., Links, P., Conn, D (2004). “Holocaust Experience and Suicidal Ideation in High-Risk Older Adults.” American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 12(1): 65-74.
Clausen, J. A., Ed. (1972). The Life Course of Individuals. Aging and Society: A Sociology of Age Stratification. New York, Russell Sage Foundation.
Cohen, B. B. (1991.). “Holocaust Survivors and the Crisis of Aging. Families in Society.” The Journal of Contemporary Human Services.: 226-232.
Cohen, J. (1977). “The Impact of Death and Dying on Concentration Camp Survivors.” Advances in Thanatology 4: 27-35.
Danieli, Y. (1981). ” Discussion: On the Achievement of Integration in Aging Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(2).
Danieli, Y. (1994). ” As Survivors Age: An Overview, Part I and II.” Clinical Quarterly 4(1 & 2).
Danieli, Y., 23. (1981). ” As Survivors Age: An Overview.” The Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 14(23).
Danieli, Y., 23. (1988). ” Treating Survivors and Children of Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.”
David, P. (2008) “Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors in Residential Care”, Journal on Jewish Aging, 2(2) Association of Jewish Aging Services of North America, New York.
David, P. (1998). “Meeting the Needs of the Aging Holocaust Survivor.” Mature Medicine 1(6).
David, P. (2002). “Aging Survivors of the Holocaust: Unique Needs, Responses and Long-Term Group Work Approaches.” Journal of Social Work in Long Term Care, 1(3).
David, P. (2005). “More Battles: War Survivors and Dementia.” Canadian Nursing Home(November 2005).
David, P. (2007). Issues of Death and Dying for Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors. Dying and Death. A. Kasher, Rodopi Press.
David, P. and S. Pelly (2003). Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors: A Practice Manual. Toronto, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
Davidson, S. (1979). “Massive psychic traumatization and social support.” Journal of Psychosomatic Res 23: 395-402.
Davidson, S. (1992). Holding on to Humanity: The Message of Holocaust Survivors: the Shamai Davidson Papers. New York.
De Vries, B., P. Suedfeld, et al. (2005). “The Holocaust as a Context for Telling Life Stories.” International Journal of Aging & Human Development 60(3): 213-228.
Eitinger, L. (1973). The Concentration Camp Syndrome and its Late Sequelae. Survivors, Victims and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust. J. E. Dimsdale. New York, Hemisphere.
Felsen, I. V. (1998). Transgenerational transmission of effects of the Holocaust: The North American research perspective. International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Y. Danieli. New York, Plenum: 43-68.
Fogelman, E. (1991). Survivor-victims of War and the Holocaust. Horrendous Death and Health: Toward Action. L. D. Washington, D.C., Hemisphere: 37-45.
Freyberg, J. T. (1989). The Emerging Self in the Survivor Family. New York, Praeger.
Garwood, A.-. (1996). “The Holocaust and the power of powerlessness: survivor guilt, an Unhealed wound.” British Journal of Psychotherapy 13(2): 243-358.
Gordon, M. (2001). “Memory and Duty.” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 165(9).
Grauer, H. (1999). The Chronic Aspect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. in A Time to Heal; Caring for the Aging Holocaust Survivor, A Multidisciplinary Conference, Proceedings, ed. P. David, J. Goldhar, Toronto, Baycrest Centre.
Greenspan, H. (1998). On Listening to Holocaust Survivors, Recountng and Life History. Westport, Praeger.
Hass, A. (1995). The Aftermath of Living with the Holocaust. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Hassan, J. (2003). A House Next Door to Trauma: Learning from Holocaust Survivors How to Respond to Atrocity. New York, Jessica Kingsely Publisher.
Herman, J. L. (1992). Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence-from domestic abuse to political terror, HarperCollins Publishers.
Joffe, C. B., H.; Luscombe, G.; Ehrlich, F. (2003). “The Sydney Holocaust Study; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Other Psychosocial Morbidity in an Aged Community Sample.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 16(1): 39-47.
Kahana, B., Z. Harel, et al., Eds. (1989). Clinical and Gerontological Issues facing Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and their Families. New York, Praeger.
Kahana, B., Z. Harel, et al. (2005). Holocaust survivors and immigrants: Late life adaptations. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. D. Meichenbaum. New York, Springer.
Kahana, B., E. Kahana, et al. (1997). A Framework for Understanding the Chronic Stress of Holocaust survivors, coping with Chronic Stress. New York, Plenum Press.
Kahana, R. J. (1981). “The Aging Survivor of the Holocaust – Discussion, Reconciliation between the generations: A last chance.” Journal of GeriatricPsychiatry 14: 225-239.
Kellerman, N. P. F. (2001). “The Long-Term Psychological Effects and Treatment of Holocaust Trauma.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 6: 197-218.
Kestenberg, J. S. (1983). “History’s Role in the Psychoanalyses of Survivors and Their Children.” The American Journal of Social Psychiatry, 3(1).
Kinsler, F. (1978). The Holocaust Survivor-Treatment Considerations. 9th Annual Conference, Society for clinical social work. San Francisco, CA.
Krell, R. (1990). “Holocaust Survivors: A clinical perspective.” Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 15(1): 18-21.
Krell, R. (1997). Survivors and their Families: Psychiatric Consequences of the Holocaust. Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors. R. Krell and M. Sherman. New Brunswick, U.S.A., Transaction Publishers. Genocide: a Critical Bibliographic Review Vol.4.
Krell, R., Eitinger, L., (1985). Psychological and Medical Effects of Concentration Camps and Related Persecutions on Survivors of the Holocaust, University of British Columbia.
Krell, R. and M. Sherman, Eds. (1997). Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors. Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. New Brunswick, U.S.A., Transaction Publishers.
Krystal, H. (1968). Massive Psychic Trauma. New York, International Universities Press.
Krystal, H. (1981). “The Aging Survivor of the Holocaust – Integration and self-healing in post-traumatic states.” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14: 165-187.
Levine, J. (2002). “Working with victims of persecution: Lessons from Holocaust survivors.” Social Work, 46(4): 350-360.
Lomranz, J. (1990). Long-Term Adaptation to Traumatic Stress in Light of Adult Development and Aging Perspectives. Stress and Coping in Later-life Families. Stephens-Mary-Ann-Parris. New York, Hemisphere Publications.
Lomranz, J. (2005). “Amplified Comment: The Triangular Relationships between the Holocaust, Aging, and Narrative Gerontology.” International Journal of Aging & Human Development 60(3): 255-267.
Ornstein, A. (1981). “The Effects of the Holocaust on Life-Cycle Experiences; the Creation and Recreation of Families.” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(2).
Peskin, H. and N. Auerhahn (2000). “Holocaust Transmission: Perverse or Life Affirming?” Journal of Personal & Interpersonal Loss 5(2/3).
Rose, S. and J. Garske (1987). “Family environment, adjustment, and coping among children of Holocaust survivors: A comparative investigation.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57: 332-344.
Rosenbloom, M. (1983). “Implications of the Holocaust for Social Work.” Social Casework: The Journal of Contemporary Social Work.: 205-213.
Rosenbloom, M. (1994). What Can We Learn from the Holocaust. Occasional Papers in Jewish History and Thought. H. College. New York, Hunter College Jewish Social Studies Program.
Rosenbloom, M. (1985). “The Holocaust Survivor in Late Life.” Gerontological Social Work Practice in the Community: 181-190.
Russell, A., D. Plotkin, et al. (1985). “Adaptive Abilities in Nonclinical Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors and Controls: A Comparison.” American Journal of Psychotherapy XXXIX(4).
Sadavoy, J. (1997). “Survivors A Review of the Late-Life Effects of Prior Psychological Trauma.” American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 5(4).
Safford, F. (1995). “Aging Stressors for Holocaust Survivors and their Families.” The Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 24 (1-2): 131-153.
Sagi-Schwartz, A., K. Grossmann, et al. (2003). “Attachment and Traumatic Stress in Female Holocaust child Survivors and their Daughters.” American Journal of Psychiatry 160(6).
Shmotkin, D. B., M.Y., (2002). “Expressions of Holocaust experience and their relationship to mental symptoms and physical morbidity among Holocaust survivor patients.” Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 25(2): 115-134.
Shour, A. (1990). “Aging Holocaust Survivors in the Institution.” Journal of Aging and Judaism, 4(3): 141-160.
Solkoff, N. (1981). “Children of Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 51: 229-4.
Solkoff, N. (1981). “Children Of Survivors Of The Nazi Holocaust: A Critical Review Of The Literature.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 51(1): 29-42.
Steinberg, A. (1989). Holocaust Survivors and Their Children: A Review of the Clinical Literature. New York, Praeger.
Steinitz, L. Y. (1981). “Psycho-social Effects of the Holocaust on Aging Survivors and their Families.” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(2).
Steinitz, L. Y. (1982). “Psycho-social Effects of the Holocaust on Aging Survivors and their Families.” Journal of Gerontological Social Work 4(3/4).
Suedfeld, P., C. Fell, et al. (1998). “Structural Aspects of Survivors’ Thinking About the Holocaust.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 11(2): 323-336.
Suedfeld, P., E. Soriano, et al. (2005). “Erikson’s “Components of a Healthy Personality”Among Holocaust Survivors Immediately and 40 Years After the War.” International Journal of Aging & Human Development 60(3): 229-248.
USHMM, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006. http://www.ushmm.org
Van Ijzendoorn, M. H., M. J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, et al. (2003). “Are Children of Holocaust Survivors Less Well-Adapted? A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Secondary Traumatization.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 16(5): 459-469.
Wardi, D. (1994). “Bonding and Separateness, Two Major Factors in the Relations Between Holocaust Survivors and Their Children.” Clinical Gerontologist 14(3): 119-131.
Waxman, M. (2000). “Traumatic Hand-Me-Downs: The Holocaust, Where Does It End?” Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 81 (1): 59-64.
Weinfeld, M., J. Sigal, et al. (1981). “Long-Term Effects of the Holocaust on Selected Social Attitudes and Behaviors of Survivors: A Cautionary Note.” Social Forces 60(1).
Weintraub, D. and P. Ruskin (1999). “Posttraumatic Stres Disorder in the Elderly: A Review.” Harvard Review Psychiatry 7(3): 144-152.
Weiss, S. and N. Durst (1994). “Treatment of Elderly Holocaust Survivors: How Do Therapists Cope?” The Clinical Gerontologist 14(2): 81-98.
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Wiseman, H., Barber, Jacques P. Raz, Alon, I. Yam, et al. (2002). “Parental Communication of Holocaust experiences and interpersonal patterns in offspring of Holocaust survivors.” International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26(4): 371-381.
Yehuda, R., A. Elkin, et al. (1996). “Dissociation in Aging Holocaust survivors.” The American Journal of Psychiatry 153(7): 935-940.
Yehuda, R., Schmeidler, J., Giller, E. L., Siever, L. J. Binder-Brynes, K. (1998). “Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Characteristics of Holocaust Survivors and their Adult Offspring.” American Journal of Psychiatry 155(6): 841-843.
Yehuda, R. K., Boaz; Schmeidler, James; Southwick, Steven; Wilson, Skye; Giller, Earl (1995). ” Impact of Cumulative Lifetime Trauma and Recent Stress on Current Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Holocaust Survivors.” American Journal of Psychiatry 152(12): 1815-1818.
Zilberfein, F. and V. Eskin (1992). “Helping Holocaust Survivors with the Impact of Illness and Hospitalization: Social Work Role.” Social Work in Health Care 18(1): 59-70.