Persecution and Compensation

The Experience of Meaning in Suffering among Holocaust Survivors

“…The greater bulk of survivor studies focuses on the breakdown of the personality under such extreme stress (Antonovsky, 1979;Barocas, 1970;Chodoff, 1963;Davidson, 1980;Dor-Shav, 1978;Eitinger, 1961Eitinger, , 1973Eitinger, , 1981Kijak & Funtowicz, 1982;Klein, 1974;Klein, Zellermayer, & Shanan, 1963;Krystal, 1968;Lederer, 1965;Lelav & Abramson, 1984;Luchterhand, 1970;Nadler & Ben-Shushan, 1989;Porter, 1981;Trautman, 1964;Yael, 1981). That anyone could possibly cope under the impact of such severe trauma seems inconceivable.…”