Suicide and the Holocaust: David LesterNova Publishers, 2005 - 199 Seiten The purpose of this important book is to explore the phenomena of the low suicide rate in the concentration camps during the Holocaust, and why its survivors seem to become increasingly susceptible to suicide, as they grow older. This unique book explores this heretofore unexplored area of history by the case study method utilising the detailed biographies of famous survivors. People kill themselves usually because they are in deep despair, with no hope for the future. Surely the people in the concentration camps, especially those that were clearly extermination camps, would have been in deep despair with no hope for the future. But since they supposedly did not commit suicide at a high rate, they must not have been in such state. This puzzle of human behaviour is examined under the microscope of a well-known world expert on suicide. |
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Collaborators with the Germans | 12 |
Other Europeans Opposed to the Germans | 13 |
Suicide in the Jewish Ghettos1 | 95 |
The Lodz Ghetto | 97 |
Discussion | 105 |
Suicide in the Concentration Camps | 107 |
Reports that Suicide Was Rare | 108 |
Reports that Suicide Was Common | 112 |
Who Committed Suicide? | 114 |
Value Judgments | 116 |
Ordinary Germans | 14 |
Suicide and War | 17 |
Australia | 18 |
Israel | 19 |
Explanations | 20 |
Personal Violence before Global Wars | 22 |
Suicide in Jews | 25 |
Suicides under Crisis | 26 |
Studies of Modern Jews | 27 |
Comment | 30 |
Conclusions | 40 |
Suicide in Exile Cases | 41 |
Kurt Tucholsky | 44 |
Sigmund Freud | 49 |
Simone Weil | 55 |
Wilhelm Stekel | 61 |
Paul Federn | 63 |
Stefan Zweig | 64 |
Comment | 72 |
Suicide to Escape Capture Cases | 73 |
Walter Benjamin | 74 |
Jerzy Feliks Urman | 78 |
Suicide in Anticipation of Deportation | 81 |
Germany | 83 |
Austria | 90 |
Other Nations | 92 |
Suicide in other Situations | 117 |
Comment | 119 |
Suicide after the War Cases | 121 |
Paul Celan | 130 |
Primo Levi | 137 |
Brief Cases | 144 |
Cases of Attempted Suicide | 150 |
Discussion | 152 |
Suicide after Release | 155 |
Adjustment after Imprisonment | 156 |
Suicidal Behavior in Refugees and after Torture | 157 |
Examples of Suicide in Survivors | 158 |
Studies of Survivors | 159 |
A Study of Eight Writers | 161 |
Suicide in Gentiles | 164 |
The Children of Survivors | 165 |
Suicide in the Germans | 167 |
The Mischling | 169 |
Joseph Goebbels | 170 |
Francois Genoud | 177 |
Discussion | 179 |
Conclusions | 181 |
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Seite 3 - I wish to express my vigorous protest against the apathy with which the world regards and resigns itself to the slaughter of the Jewish people.
Seite 3 - I can no longer remain silent. I cannot live when the remnant of the Jewish people in Poland, whom I represent, is being steadily annihilated. My comrades in the Warsaw ghetto fell with weapons in their hands, in the last heroic struggle. I was not fortunate enough to die as they did and together with them. But I belong to them and to their mass graves. By my death...
Seite 2 - Sokolovskaya had her wrists cut, but she did not die. a fountain of blood burst out and I fell. I remember distinctly, it reminded me of Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis. I had no strength left in me to lift myself to have my other hand cut. We were lying on the floor losing blood. Next morning the Germans opened the door.