Part 7
Lives Lived (1949 - )
In addition to the many important individual accounts of Holocaust survival that have been written over the past nearly 75 years, there have studies based upon oral histories and memoirs as well as research that compared Jewish survivors with comparison groups of Jews who had not experienced the trauma of the Nazi concentration camps. While generalizations are necessarily difficult in this kind of research, there are some broad traits that distinguish Holocaust survivors who managed to build successful lives from those who were undone by wartime trauma.

Ruthie and Ernest with Evy in 1949.

Manci at cocktail party in Fort Eustis, Virginia with tattoo in 1952.

Manci and Kurt with Magda and Arne in surprise visit May 1955.

Manci with Sandy and Rhonnie, Philadelphia, 1964

Restaurant in Budapest with Kis Magda and her husband Istan.

Ernest and Ruthie in Hawaii in 1985.

Ernest and Ruthie at Lake Tahoe in 1987.

Ernest and Ruthie at family memorial May 2002.

Ernest and Ruthie in Desert Hot Springs 2007.

Ruthie, Ernest, Evy, Yael at Aschi's bar mitzval in Israel.

Ruthie's "Revenge"
Ruthie and Manci 2021