The Myth of Normal (Robert Wright & Gabor Maté)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Holocaust and Trauma
I think one way to get at what you mean by trauma and start exploring that concept is to talk about your own childhood. And so why don't you do that? Now, were you born in Germany and then, and then your parents very, very quickly went to Budapest. You were born in Hungary. No, we're Hungarians. I was two years at the time. And so then I spent the first year of my life to the end of January 45 as a Jewish infant under Nazi occupation. In the three months between March and June of 44, the Germans managed to exterminate half a million Hungarian Jews, including my grandparents. So they had not got to empty his city of
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