The impact of the holocaust on the second generation: Norwegian Jewish holocaust survivors and their children

✍ Scribed by Ellinor F. Major

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 709 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490090304

✦ Synopsis

The entire population of Norwegian-born Jews who survived the German concentration camps and their children was examined, and compared to Norwegian-born Jews who escaped to Sweden, and their children. An attempt is made to look for the symptoms described as a "second generation syndrome" by several authors. The present findings do not support the presence of serious psychopathology among the children of Norwegian-born Jewish survivors as a group, but indicate a certain degree of psychological vulnerability among these children. A s adults, they are more often engaged in healthlsocial care professions and organizations and also show signs of greater assimilation to their non-Jewish surroundings than the comparison group.