The Aftermath
Living with the Holocaust

The Aftermath offers the most comprehensive examination of the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors ever undertaken.

Aaron Hass (Author)

9780521574594, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 July 1996

236 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg

"In this beautifully written book, Aaron Hass explores human responses to the trauma of the Holocaust from a psychosocial and mental health perspective....The book succeeds in offering a balanced view of survivors as individuals who have been able to move forward following adversity, but at great psychic cost." Jewish Book World

The Aftermath offers a perspective of how one who has lived with terror for years is able to avoid paralysis and move forward. It is a book about how people live with gnawing doubts and uncertainty concerning their past actions and inaction. It is a tale of the anguish they feel because of their first hand knowledge of the evil in their fellow human being which so unjustly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs. For a while the Holocaust survivor seems, in most ways, to be like you and I, they are also aware of their subterranean world which may afflict them without warning. The Aftermath offers the most comprehensive examination of the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors ever undertaken and covers the widest range of topics including: survivor guilt, the absence of mourning, the psychological characteristics of survivor families, a survivor's view of God, survivor's feelings about Germans as well as their own countrymen of origin, and the survivor's ongoing sense of vulnerability.

Introduction
1. A view of survivors
2. 'Whose Fault Was It?'
3. Mourning
4. Vulnerabilities
5. The mask of the survivor
6. The importance of age
7. Intrusions of memory
8. Survivor families
9. 'Was God Watching This?'
10. Revenge
11. Collective guilt.

Subject Areas: Second World War [HBWQ], The Holocaust [HBTZ1]