"My daughter asked me, 'Mama, if you deportees had had psychologists or psychiatrists when you returned, maybe it would have been easier for you. I replied, 'Undoubtedly, but we didn't have them. No one thought of mental illness. But you gave me a good idea. We'll have a lecture on that topic."
~ Francine Christophe
"Francine's interview - FRANCE - #HUMAN"
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"Many did not even speak to friends or family about what they had been through. Or at least, that was my experience in Israel. The underlying attitude in Israel in those years was tainted with the shameful feeling that Jews had gone like 'sheep to their slaughter'. We didn't understand trauma much then, or how to talk about things..."
~ Hannah Pick Goslar, pages 291- 292, My Friend Anne Frank
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"The Anne Frank Diary Opera"
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