after+affects

Children and adults were treated differently in concentration camps but both saw much horror and violence. The children never really experienced a childhood but were instead forced to work in unhealthy conditions for the Nazis or hide from place to place until the war was over. The after affects were so great on the survivors. PTSD (aka Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was very common among them. Many felt depressed or guilty that they survived and others didn't. But this didn't just effect one generation. There have been studies showing that survivors past down their emotional and psychiatric problems (Fara Kaplan). Seperation Anxiety was just one of the many after effects on survivors and their families.

Ephraim was a young boy hidden in an old lady's cuboard for many years. She barely kept him alive. Because he was forced to live in those confined conditions his feet twisted backwards and it took months of medical treatment to correct this problem. He didn't learn to walk again till he was 7 years old.
 * Ephraim Shtenkler's Story**(pgs21-32):



You can learn more [|here], and by going to your local library or bookstore near you and reading //Children in the Holocaust and World War 2: their secret diaries// by Laurel Holliday.