Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process

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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. It is unique in that it features different aspects of the interviewer-interviewee relationship. The contributions are personal as well as analytical in nature, and the narrative is an informed psychological analysis. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.

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"Kestenberg and Fogelman, after many years of work and study of this field, have produced a spectacular, novel approach...Dealing with people who have been severely traumatized in childhood is dangerous. One can cause harm just by listening...Somehow the authors and editors managed to steer safely in these dangerous currents. We can only admire and try to emulate this pioneering effort."-Henry Krystal, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry Michigan State University

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JUDITH S. KESTENBERG was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University. She was Founder of Child Development Research (affiliated with Tel-Aviv University), Co-Director and Co-Founder of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, and Co-Founder of Group for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Effect of the Holocaust on the Second Generation. EVA FOGELMAN is a Social Psychologist and Psychotherapist in private practice, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Social Research at CUNY. She is Codirector of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas, Training Institute for Mental Health, and is author of Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.