Resource Tag: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

The authors have been following 6 prisoners of war & their families since the men returned from Vietnam. Finding that most of the men experienced cognitive, social, work, emotional, & family difficulties during the 1st 2 yrs after their return. Most of these problems were resolved after 2 yrs, & there was no evidence of […]

A series of essays written by Havard University students, including essays on personal suicide attempts and their reactions to the suicides of others. (KB)

The perplexing and often misunderstood phenomenon of suicide involving concentration camp survivors is analyzed in this article from the standpoint of a survivor who is also an expert. The phenomenon is compared to data for the general population and considered from the pre-war persecution and post-war stages of development.

This paper explores the psychosocial and environmental configurations that might have been responsible for an unusual situation of survival under extreme conditions. A Group of 500 civilians (mostly Americans) lived 3.5 years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines during World War II. Although conditions were very harsh, the survival rate of this group […]