This book offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora. It is a most moving account of the desperate struggles of these survivors to overcome their horrendous experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and their subsequent attempts to revive their lives after the Second World War. Hillel Klein, the author, was himself one of these Holocaust survivors. Later, as a psychoanalyst, Klein interviewed survivors in Israel and the United States of America and evaluated the consequences of the Holocaust and its aftermath from a psychoanalytic point of view which, together with his own memories contained in this book, gives it a special depth and contributes to making it a most moving account.

Alex Holder (PhD Basel University) was born in Basel in April 1931. He studied English literature, German literature and History at Basel University, then went to London to train as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre and later as a psychoanalyst for adults at the British Psychoanalytical Society. In 1983 he became the head of the department for children at the psychoanalytic institute in Hamburg. From 1996 he continued in private practice before retiring to Basel in 2008.