Another post-Holocaust story

[cema]

From AP.

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[larisaka.livejournal.com]

да, удивительная история.

[chaource.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess there are other similar stories of young children surviving during the WW2 winters. One recently read is "Surviving with Wolves" by Misha Defonseca. (see Amazon at ISBN 0749950617 although I bought a cheaper paperback copy that seems to be not available any more)
A 7-year-old girl survived by living with a pack of wolves who adopted her as if she were a cub. She traveled on foot from Belgium to Warsaw, went to the ghetto looking for her parents, found only imminent death, fled from the ghetto, spent some time in the Ukraine and Romania, and came back to Belgium to be adopted at a catholic school.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Then there is a story about the boy who pretended to be German ("Europa, Europa").

Sometimes it is difficult to tell how much of that is true. But something must be true: they survived.

Mishke Defonseca

[chaource.livejournal.com]

In case of Defonseca there is IMHO little doubt that what she is saying is substantially true. I read some Amazon reviews of people who know her personally. They describe her uncanny relationship with animals, especially wolves. She can really talk to them. The only way parts of her story could be untrue is that her memory was faulty.

Re: Mishke Defonseca

[cema.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am talking about the memory. I am not saying she would lie about her experience.

"...Милый мой хороший, догадайся сам" (русская нар. песня)

[oregosha.livejournal.com]

I would be ЕХТРЕМЕЛЫ surprised if she (well, ALL the survivors) would not have memory problems. I'd rather say, it's simply impossible for them NOT to have such problems. Should I mention here depression, stress and PTSD, or you are matured enough to guess it yourselves?..

[cema.livejournal.com]

Вот когда эти ехтремелы происходят с ребёнком, который ничего больше в жизни не видел, то это совсем иначе окрашивает его жизнь, чем если бы это случилось с подростком или взрослым. Там должны быть какие-то свои слова. Не знаю, что по этому поводу умеет сказать психологическая наука.

[oregosha.livejournal.com]

Ух, она сказать умеет! Но не значит, что всё уже известно. Так сказать, under development, как это обычно в науке. По определению. Работает народ над ентой темкой, так сказать, в поте лица. Но конца-края не видно. Каждый случай разбирать сложновато - неизбежно приходишь к chaos theory... Но тут в помощь учёным приходит neurobiology, research phycology, cognitive science, information processing, не говоря уже об элементарной статистике...