Survivors of Holocaust

Reviews the book, Concentration Camp Survivors in Norway and Israel by L. Eitinger (see record 1966-01612-000). The author contributes valuable findings based on detailed clinical studies of almost 600 survivors. Through interview, medical and psychiatric examination, and analysis of clinical records, collected fifteen years after liberation, he contrasts the postwar fate of Israeli (mainly Polish Jewish) and Norwegian prisoners, the one subjected to the harshest physical and psychological treatment and the other among the more "privileged" groups of inmates. Though the book is organized in a somewhat plodding way, the English is remarkably good for someone writing in his third or fourth language. In all, this is a fine clinical study based on a large amount of painstaking and difficult work; with objectivity it reports findings of considerable interest to students of stress and psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)