Synopses & Reviews
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 beings that so unjustly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs. For while the Holocaust survivors seem, in most ways, to be like you and I, they are also aware of their subterranean world that 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, survivors' feelings about Germans as well as their own countrymen of origin, and the survivor's ongoing sense of vulnerability. Aaron Hass is Professor of Psychology at California State University Dominguez Hills, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. A member of the International Executive Board of the Holocaust Sites Preservation Committee, he is an editorial advisor of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Dr. Hass, who is himself a child of survivors, has lectured internationally about the effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their children.
Review
"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
Synopsis
The Aftermath offers the most comprehensive examination of the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors ever undertaken.
Synopsis
The Aftermath offers a perspective of how one who has lived with terror for years is able to avoid paralysis and move forward. 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, survivors' feelings about Germans as well as their own countrymen of origin, and the survivor's ongoing sense of vulnerability.