A Female Adolescent Bystander's Diary and the Jewish Hungarian Holocaust

Bruno Bettelheim ( 1903 – 1990 ) R Paul Marcus

BRUNO BETTELHEIM WAS born in Vienna to uppermiddle-class assimilated Jewish parents, Pauline and Anton Bettelheim, on 28 August 1903. Though born when the Hapsburgs still ruled the Austro-Hungarian empire, Bettelheim grew up during the age of Freud. By age fourteen he was already voraciously reading in psychoanalysis, an angle of vision that was to inform his later writings on survivorship and ...

Dr Aaron Pik, a Lithuanian physician, recounts this harrowing story in his diary from the period he spent in the Shavli ghetto during the Holocaust. He also notes the deep moral and ethical dilemma facing the physicians involved. According to the halakhah (Jewish Law), protecting the life of the mother takes precedence over the life of the baby, and it was believed that in such terrible circumstances religious commands should mandate the physicians’ reluctance to disregard medical ethics and the Hippocratic oath. But, between 1939 and 1945, medicine held out hopes of survival for Jewish women, men and children, and Jewish physicians in Nazi-occupied Europe were able to restore a sense of order in the life of their communities. Pik’s is a remarkable diary and a unique historical source, and one which Miriam Offer uses brilliantly in her chapter dealing with various aspects of Jewish medical practices in the Shavli ghetto. This chapter is one of the twenty included in a volume on Jewish medical resistance in the Holocaust, edited by the

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Suicide in Judaism with a Special Emphasis on Modern Israel

Judaism considers the duty of preserving life as a paramount injunction. Specific injunctions against suicide appear in the Bible, Talmud, and thereafter. Nevertheless, Jewish tradition emphasizes that one should let himself be killed rather than violate cardinal rules of Jewish law. Mitigating circumstances are found for the six deaths by suicide mentioned in the Bible, for example to account ...

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This article analyses the life stories of female Jewish refugees and survivors in 1950s Britain in order to explore their relationship with the existing Jewish community and wider society. The paper is based on an analysis of twenty-one oral history testimonies from the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust collection held at the British library. Around 50,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe ca...