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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. It is unique in that it features different aspects of the interviewer-interviewee relationship. The contributions are personal as well as analytical in nature, and the narrative is an informed psychological analysis. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.
List of contents
Preface: Tribute to Milton Kestenberg, by Judith S. Kestenberg
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Eva Fogelman
The Interview ProcessOverview of the Effect of Psychological Research Interviews on Child Survivors by Judith S. Kestenberg
Narration as a Construction of Identity by Ilka Quindeau
Effect of Interviews on Child SurvivorsThe Effect of Interviews on Child Survivors--Child Survivors Revisited by Milton Kestenberg
A Follow up Study: Child Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust Reflect on Being Interviewed by Eva Fogelman and Flora Hogman
Effects of Interviews with Rescued Child Survivors by Eva Fogelman
Can the Rancored and the Ravaged Receive Relief from the Rigors of Research? by Charlotte Kahn
The Combined Effect of Interviews and Group Participation by the Interviewer by Joan Seif Levi
Professional Child Survivors Reflect on Their Own InterviewA Child Survivor's Appraisal of His Own Interview by Paul Valent
A Fortuitous Meeting: An Interviewee Becomes an Interviewer by Vera Treplin
On Being Interviewed About the Holocaust by Eva Fishell Lichtenberg
Interviewers Look at ThemselvesThe Effects of Interviews on Child Survivors and on the Interviewers in Israel by Dr. Yolanda Gampel and Aviva Mazor
The Interviewer as Witness: Counter-Transference, Reactions, and Techniques by Helene Bass-Wichelhaus
A First Interview With a Child Survivor of the Holocaust by Regine Podrizki
Epilogue by Eva Fogelman
Index
About the author
JUDITH S. KESTENBERG was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University. She was Founder of Child Development Research (affiliated with Tel-Aviv University), Co-Director and Co-Founder of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, and Co-Founder of Group for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Effect of the Holocaust on the Second Generation.
EVA FOGELMAN is a Social Psychologist and Psychotherapist in private practice, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Social Research at CUNY. She is Codirector of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas, Training Institute for Mental Health, and is author of
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.
