Evidence mounts that Holocaust stress comes back to haunt aging survivors.(Special Report:...

Publication: Older Americans Report
Date: Friday, November 4 2005

A five-year study of elderly patients at an Israeli facility sheds light on how long the effects of the Holocaust trauma can last.

Yoram Barak and colleagues from Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine studied the records of 921 people over 65 at the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. Of the 374 individuals who survived the Holocaust, 90 had tried to commit suicide in the month before admission, compared to only 45 of the 502 patients with no World War II experience.

The findings suggest that trauma, rather than hardening people to other losses, such a

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