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Staging Childhood Holocaust Survivor Trauma: Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport

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Abstract

Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust provide the answer to the question of what occurs when humans lose their humanity and when their culture has been removed from them. The Holocaust was perhaps the only period in history that allows us to determine the psychological effects of extreme trauma on human beings in a manner that no civilized experiment on mankind could ever duplicate. The trauma was particularly acute for children who survived the Shoah. This essay focuses on the traumata experienced by child survivors who were abandoned by parents who tried to shield their children from the horrors of the genocide; the play that best represents such traumata is Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport.

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Published Online: 2015-11-4
Published in Print: 2015-11-1

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