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Dr. Naama Shik is Director of the e-Learning Department, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.
Solidarity and Mutual Aid Between Women in the Camps
"… I was saved by a young woman who was in as helpless a situation as the rest of us, and who nonetheless wanted nothing other than to help me. The more I think about the following scene, the more astonished I am about its essence, about someone making a free decision to save another person, in a place which promoted the instinct of self-preservation to the point of crime and beyond. It was both unrivaled and exemplary. Neither psychology or biology explains it. Only free will does. Simone... Continue reading
Interview with Professor Dori Laub, Expert on Interviews and Survivor Testimony
Professor Dori Laub was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1937. With his parents, he was deported to Transnistria in 1942. His father disappeared during a German raid prior to liberation by the Soviets and he and his mother were reunited with his grandparents who had survived in Czernowitz. He immigrated to Israel in 1950 where he attended medical school. Today he is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and a psychoanalyst in private practice. In 1979 he co-founded the... Continue reading
