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“PLAYING WITH REALITY” IN A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2022
This paper explores the function of play under traumatic circumstances, focusing on playing with the reality of a Nazi concentration camp. The goal of playing was to enhance life forces, which was achieved by active mastery of the passive trauma, re-establishment of inner equilibrium, transformation of internal reality into a more bearable one ...
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Reading the traces: embodied engagement with the past at three former Nazi concentration camps

Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century, 2019
Since German Reunification, sites of Nazi atrocities have undergone an array of transformations as curators determine how they can best educate visitors.
K. Whigham
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Landscapes of enslavement: investigations of Nazi concentration camps in Czyżówek and Karczmarka, Poland

Antiquity
This study uses archival photos and data from lidar, geophysical surveys and excavations to help uncover the physical realities of two Second World War Nazi sub-camps, Czyżówek (AL Halbau) and Karczmarka (AL Kittlitztreben), in the Gross-Rosen network ...
P. Konczewski, Radosław Biel, Łukasz Orlicki, Katarzyna Biernacka, J. Szczurowski, Barbara Kwiatkowska, Marek Michalski, Natalia Gałdyn, Natalia Bernacka   +8 more
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Suicides in the Nazi Concentration Camps

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1986
ABSTRACT: On the basis of psychiatric interviews with 69 former prisoners of the Auschwitz‐Birkenau concentration camp, this paper describes the circumstances, motives, and ways of committing suicide in the camp. The interviews made it clear that thousands of prisoners perished by suicide.
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Long term mortality of NAZI concentration camp survivors

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1993
Nazi concentration camp survivors have been shown to have excess mortality in the first 20 years following their release. To determine if this excess persists, Israeli civil servants were studied. Mortality of camp survivors and of other post-war European immigrants was compared 20-41 years following World War II.
R L, Williams, J H, Medalie, S J, Zyzanski, S A, Flocke, S, Yaari, U, Goldbourt   +5 more
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Suicide in Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-9

Journal of Contemporary History, 2010
Too often histories of the concentration camps tend to be ignorant of the wider political context of nazi repression and control. This article tries to overcome this problem. Combining legal, social and political history, it contributes to a more thorough understanding of the changing relationship between the camps as places of extra-legal terror and ...
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Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

2009
Book synopsis: The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had ...
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The Coping Behavior of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivors

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
This study of coping strategies reports on interviews with 19 survivors of Nazi concentration camps. The subjects, relatively healthy survivors who were not severely psychiatrically disabled, were interviewed in Jerusalem and the San Francisco Bay area. The author presents a classification of coping strategies in extreme stress situations and discusses
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Binge eating and eating attitudes among Nazi concentration camp survivors

Psychological Medicine, 2000
Background. Prisoners in Nazi concentration camps lived through extreme situations that included starvation. We test our hypothesis that there is a greater lifetime presence of binge eating among survivors from concentration camps than in a control group.Methods.
FAVARO, ANGELA, RODELLA F. C., SANTONASTASO, PAOLO   +2 more
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Time orientation in Nazi concentration camp survivors: Forty years after.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1985
Temporal aspects were evaluated in 44 Nazi concentration camp survivors and 31 control subjects, all 50-60 years old. The survivors attached to the Holocaust a more intense role within time orientation; they were more past-oriented, less future-oriented, and had a generally more pessimistic attitude toward life events.
Jacob, Lomranz, Dov, Shmotkin, Amnon, Zechovoy, Eliot, Rosenberg   +3 more
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