Auschwitz is in us. Almost every fourth Pole affected by war trauma?
Photo: Marek Lach, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, auchwitz.org
– This is an enchanted circle. On the one hand, people are afraid to burden the family, and on the other hand their hypersensitivity, excessive reactions resulting from trauma, affect the functioning of subsequent generations – says dr hab. MichaÅ‚ Bilewicz, social psychologist and author of the book “Traumaland. Poles in the shadow of the past”, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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On January 27, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Concentration camps are the most shocking testimony to the cruelty of the Nazis and at the same time unimaginably the traumatic experience of the so -called war generation. But is it just this – the “war” generation? Is it not that the trauma of concentration camps and – more broadly – war experiences, survived and is with us to this day?
We talk about this with the habilitated doctor MichaÅ‚ Bilewicz – social psychologist, researcher at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, head of the Center for Prejudice Research, author of the book “Traumaland. Poles in the shadow of the past”.
Michał BilewiczArek Markowicz / PAP
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