Are the Stories from the Holocaust Survivors with PTSD...

This investigation will answer the question To what extent are the stories from the Holocaust survivors with PTSD reliable as historical sources? This question is important because there are still holocaust survivors alive today, and their stories are arguably the ones that teach us he most about the Holocaust, since they are primary sources of the event. The survivors dealt with a lot of physical and emotional trauma while in the camps, so it would be easy for them to procure PTSD. The mental illness PTSD can make it harder for the survivors to talk about certain events, because it could increase the symptoms of the illness. With this research investigation, it is possible to analyze whether the stories from the Holocaust survivors are†¦show more content†¦(NIMH RSS. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 2013) Survivors often pushed the trauma to the backs of their minds, which then caused hosts of emotional and psychological terror and difficulties. (NIMH RSS. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 2013) â€Å"Six decades after the end of World War II and we are still learning how a mass genocide like the Holocaust is affecting it’s victims† We are still learning and gathering information. (Barel, Efrat, 2010) There was a lot of psychological denial. There was not much help for the Jews once they were liberated, since doctors were scarce. Diseases were easy to catch, and life was still hard for the Jewish people. (Bettelheim, Bruno, 1979) Survivor’s Evidence Holocaust survivors can be defined as â€Å"any persecuted Jew who lived under Nazi occupation during the 2nd World War and who was thus threatened by the policy of the ‘final solution’ but managed to stay alive.† (Kellermann, Natan P.F., 2009) Survivor and Psychologist Viktor Frankl often stops throughout his novel, attempting to save the reader from the horror. â€Å" But mercifully I do not need to describe the events which followed.† (Frankl, Viktor E., 1959, Page 31) â€Å"It is easy for the outsider to get the wrong conception of camp life, a conception ingled with sentiment and pity. Little does he know of the hard fight for existence which