[The sequential traumatisation of a Sinti-child Holocaust-survivor].
The subject of this case-report is the life-history, nosogenesis and history of compensation claims of a 64-years old Sinti-woman, who survived Nazi-persecution and WWII as a child. She and her mother spent 3 years in a concentration camp. At the end of the war she witnessed her mothers death. Her life is characterised by psychosomatic symptoms, disorders of psychosexual development, including infertility, and a chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The non-treated course of the Holocaust survivor syndrom, described by Niederland, which was mostly denied in Germany, could be now shown by detailed exploration and the reanalysis of former expert reports of her symptoms. Furthermore, this case report presents the internationally described characteristics of long-term effects in children that have survived the Holocaust. These symptoms are typical of cases that were not been treated throughout life. The former lack of acceptance in Germany of these long-term effects has - like in this and other cases - lead to development into a chronic disorder.
Purucker
Michael
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Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Abteilung für Allgemeine Akutpsychiatrie, Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth. hmhfp@web.de
D035881:Compensation and Redress / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003209:Concentration Camps; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006117:Grief; D017767:Holocaust; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D028683:National Socialism; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012934:Social Isolation; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*