Describe Fear in Your Own Words. Stories from the Holocaust: A Historical and Psychological Analysis
Describe Fear in Your Own Words. Stories from the Holocaust: A Historical and Psychological Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The present study, as an interdisciplinary approach that combines history and psychology, tries to identify the way Holocaust survivors from Northern Transylvania dealt with fear and anxiety before, during, and after their imprisonment in ghettos and concentration camps. A number of 22 Holocaust survivors from the northern part of Transylvania, who were deported to Auschwitz in May-June 1944, were interviewed during between 2006 and 2009 and asked about different manifestations of fear regarding their captivity. How they responded to the feelings of fear before and during their imprisonment and how they perceived it afterwards is the main focus of this study.

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