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A recent seminar on "Ef- fects of the Holocaust on the Aging Population," organized, for professionals working with the elderly by Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Hospital Geriatric Institute and Emunah College, surveyed the latest effects of imprisOnment in the camps. It also examined "survivors syndrome," whereby the delayed effects of Holocaust trauma surface only decades later. Speakers noted that memories became more vivid later in life, and some elder- ly Holocaust survivors begin to relive their war horrors, bringing back long-repressed memories. They often suffer physical and mental breakdowns, self-imposed social isolation or even suicidal tendencies. They become people without loyalties, feeling stateless and cultureless. They lack a sense of personal identity. Most of unable to share their experiences with their spouses and children, and are afraid to love. Dr. Henry Shor, a senior psychiatrist at Shalvata Hospital, explained that some patients he had treated for severe depression, apathy or psychoses actually were reac- ting to World War II ex- periences they had managed to repress. He said that during the war these people had used all their physical and emotional strength to deal with emergencies at hand. "Even mourning was a luxury that no one could afford at the time if he wanted to survive," Shor explained. After the war, he said, while trying to rebuild their broken lives many became "workaholics," escaping into their jobs to flee from the past. They married or remar- ried, raised children — and tried to forget. Thus, retirement can be especially traumatic for the survivor. The halt of regular work often leads to total men- tal or physical breakdown, the researchers said. Dr. Tikva Natan of Haifa University noted that the price of such repression was high, with survivors tending to "deaden" their feelings and thus being unable to sustain a normal parent-child relationship. The survivors, she said, were either protective, fear- ful, smothering parents with unusually high expectations or, on the other hand, withdrawn, unresponsive and overly harsh. Dr. Julius Elraz, himself a former camp inmate, spoke about the guilt harbored by Holocaust victims often for decades. "They try to push - away the thought:Why did I remain alive while so many better than I died?' " he said. "They inevitably feel they They become people without loyalties, feeling stateless and cultureless. saved themselves by the death of others — and there are cases where this is indeed true." Dr. Betty Brodsky of the Feuerstein Institute remark- ed that such people "have a need to punish themselves" and cannot to this day allow themselves to enjoy life or take part in happy events. Holocaust survivors undergo another traumatic experience when they need hospitalization or nursing care. They then feel a loss of control over their own destinies by submitting to authority as they did 45 years ago. But they also recall the sadistic experiments they and their children were forced to undergo in the camps. They panic at the recollection that it was the sick and infirm who were murdered first. According to the experts, aging concentration camp survivors suffer from insom- nia, nightmare, predisposi- tion to illness and hypochon- dria, chronic fatigue, impa- tience and agressive behavior toward others. But on the positive side, the camp survivors are by and large a tight brotherhood who maintain contact. Some survivors feel they re- mained alive to - "bear witness" and hence, after retirement, when they final- ly come to terms with their memories and their present situation in life, many "open up" for the first time in 40 years, the seminar par- ticipants were told. 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