Children Surviving Persecution: An International Study of Trauma and Healing

by Judith Kestenberg and Charlotte Kahn

Book Overview

This international study of children's experiences of organized persecution, explores the Holocaust and its aftermath as prototypical social trauma. Traumatized persons' feelings of shame and guilt as well as a sense of being different may prevail, and they may attribute great power to others, seek safety in isolation, or search for a rescuer. Nevertheless, as a group, the child survivors of the Holocaust have achieved remarkable success as adults...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027596261X
• ISBN13: 9780275962616
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"