Survivor Syndrome In The Holocaust

It is impossible to know exactly how many Jews were killed of exposure, disease, and starvation in the Holocaust. Many people were put to death for speaking out against Hitler and for disagreeing with the government. In the book The Holocaust by Seymour Rossel it is estimated that about 6,000,000 Jews died. Not only were Jews being killed during the Holocaust but so were gypsies, slaves, the mentally ill, and the physically deformed people. (Rossel, p. 3) The survivors of the Holocaust suffered from depression, anxiety, nightmares, and guilt. Many people may refer to this as survivor syndrome, which means a mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not.