Despite the fact that 50 years have passed since the Nazi regime and the Holocaust the psychic sequelae are far from being overcome. The majority of Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans still list their experiences as the "most significant stressors" of their lives. The literature provides ample evidence that posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors persists into old age. However,...

The fall of the Third Reich, turning “most tragic page” in history Jewish nation, i .e . Second World War, did not mean end tragedy for Jews on Polish soil. Even before greatest conflict humankind, areas liberated from Nazi Germany occupation, many survivors Holocaust experienced acts ruthless violence. However, very few numerous victims post-war anti-Jewish terror have been commemorated public...

This paper offers autoethnographic storytelling and analysis, considering what multispecies framing can offer post-war memorialisation discourse practice. During 2019, I undertook initial scoping consultation around the potential of a new museum or memorial site for Kosova. The aim this is to encourage reflection, peace building, action human rights. In Kosova there are multiple conflicting pra...

This article briefly reviews the evolution and evidence-base of Control-Focused Behavioral Treatment (CFBT), largely self-helpbased treatment that involves no cognitive interventions, focuses solely on reducing avoidance behaviors through self-exposure to anxiety-evoking trauma cues, and, unlike other aims enhance sense control over traumatic stressors, rather than anxiety reduction. As such, i...

The essay centers of the efforts by the League of Nations to rescue women and children survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This rescue -- a seemingly unambiguous good -- was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of the international community, a key moment in the definition of humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence in the post-Ottoman Eastern Medi...

What follows are some thoughts, occasioned by a recent three-hour filmed interview with my father, Abraham Bursztajn, conducted by Dr. Mark Weisstuch on behalf of the Steven Spielberg Foundation. The foundation, created by the film director Steven Spielberg after the making of the film “Schindler’s List,” is dedicated to chronicling the memories of Jewish survivors of the Nazi attempt at system...

In this issue of The Lancet, three Series papers and a Viewpoint commemorate 70 years of caring for survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the more recent extension of that care to those aff ected by the Fukushima nuclear accident. As a result of this unwelcome triple legacy, Japan has become a uniquely important site for understanding radiation-related health ef...