Long-term psychosomatic impact in Holocaust offspring: TreeGenes, a multidisciplinary research study

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Long-term psychosomatic im pact in Ho lo ca ust offspr ing: TreeGenes, a Mu ltidisciplina r y Re sea rc h Study Maria J. van Beurden Cahn and Jacques D. Barth

We acted crazy, we were sick and dirty, and we had become so very afraid.1 They knew that people were walking around with numbers on their arms, but there was nobody who saw this as particularly important. The Hunger Winter2 had been truly terrible, I heard that over and over, so I kept my mouth shut because I was still alive.3

About the Authors: Maria J. van Beurden Cahn M.Sc., is Head of Historiography of the TreeGenes Study and Education Specialist at NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Jacques D. Barth MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, is a cardiologist and a professor at the Department of Cardiology of the Jeremiasz Research Foundation in Haarlem, Netherlands, as well as Professor of Family Medicine (Cardiology) at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

1

Citroen, 1999: 54.

2

Hunger Winter, aka Dutch famine, was a long-lasting period of food shortages in the Northern part of the Netherlands. See also https://liberationroute.com/the-netherlands/pois/t/the-hunger-winter and https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/tweedewereldoorlog/kingdomofthenetherlands/ thenetherlands/thenetherlands,june_1944_-_may_1945/the_hunger_winter [Accessed 10 August 2019].

3

Citroen, 1999: 111.


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