Word: holocaustal
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...stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move was the climax of the campaign by Barak, Szor and Mark to have survivors treated as victims of trauma rather than as hopeless schizophrenics who should simply be drugged...
...that she thought her son, in his army fatigues, was one of the uniformed Nazis who had terrorized her. "It gives me goose bumps to think of the awful look on her face," Mark says. He and a few other young psychiatrists soon discovered a disproportionate number of Holocaust survivors in Israel's mental hospitals, where they had been neglected for decades. The doctors have been campaigning to have survivors treated for Holocaust trauma, instead of psychotic conditions that have resisted treatment for five decades...
Mark's campaign was a key element in a broader process that has changed Israel's handling of Holocaust survivors profoundly. The survivors' tale is one of neglect, penny-pinching and shame. Finally, Israel is being forced to accept responsibility for its 300,000 Holocaust victims - not just for their mental health but also their overall wellbeing. A parliamentary commission last April ordered Israeli banks to audit dormant accounts that may belong to Holocaust victims. Ministry of Justice officials tell Time they're hiring a group of former police investigators to locate heirs to abandoned properties whose European owners died...
...time when Swiss banks and German industrial companies are making amends for their conduct during World War II, dozens of senior Israeli politicians, bureaucrats and mental health professionals acknowledge that the Jewish state must own up to its abuse of Holocaust survivors. A documentary that had its Israeli premiere at a film festival in Jerusalem last month is one of the first media examinations of Holocaust survivors' plight. The film, Last Journey Into Silence, directed by Shosh Shlam, has saddened and shocked audiences, but it is contributing to a growing debate about the problem. "It's the last chapter...
When Barak came to Abarbanel four years ago, he found 67% of his patients were Holocaust survivors - compared to barely a third of Israel's over-60s generally. A similar imbalance was found in the country's other mental hospitals. Decades of using antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol and Thorazine hadn't worked. In the lobby of the survivors' ward, patients still shake uncontrollably and grind their jaws grotesquely from the side effects of such drugs. Barak changed the diagnosis of schizophrenia attached to most of the 120 survivors in his ward to "long-term post-traumatic psychosis." With Szor...