Part 7

Lives Lived (1949 - )

In addition to the many important individual accounts of Holocaust survival that have been written over the past nearly 75 years, there have studies based upon oral histories and memoirs as well as research that compared Jewish survivors with comparison groups of Jews who had not experienced the trauma of the Nazi concentration camps. While generalizations are necessarily difficult in this kind of research, there are some broad traits that distinguish Holocaust survivors who managed to build successful lives from those who were undone by wartime trauma.