title: [Widows of victims of Nazi concentration camps: their pathology].
abstract: The psychosocial situation of widows and orphans of victims of the Nazi concentration camps in Poland are presented. In 1984, 74 widows of victims from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were interviewed. This article describes widows' emotional-behavioral reactions when facing the imprisonment and death of their husbands, their difficulties in adapting themselves to widowhood, different adaptative forms of memories of their married life, and consequences relevant to widows' mental health and family, and social consequences of widowhood.
authors.affiliation: Academia de Medicina de Cracovia, Polonia.
authors.forename: Z J
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Ryn
mesh_terms: D003209:Concentration Camps; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D011056:Political Systems; D012847:Single Person / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Viudas de víctimas de los campos de concentración nazis: su patología.