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Yehuda Nir (1930–2014)

Autor/a de The Lost Childhood, A World War II Memoir

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Nom normalitzat
Nir, Yehuda
Altres noms
Gruenfeld, Juliusz
Data de naixement
1930-03-31
Data de defunció
2014-07-19
Lloc d'enterrament
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Poland (birth)
USA
Lloc de naixement
Lvov, Poland
Llocs de residència
Lvov, Poland
New York, New York, USA
Haifa, Israel
Pennsylvania, USA
Educació
Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
Professions
psychiatrist (private practice)
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
physician
author
Relacions
Maslin, Bonnie (wife)
Nir, Sarah Maslin (daughter)
Biografia breu
Dr. Yehuda Nir was born Juliusz Gruenfeld to a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland (now Ukraine). Their comfortable life was upended in 1941, when the Germans invaded their part of eastern Poland in World War II, which had previously been occupied by the Soviets. With their Ukrainian collaborators, the Germans began mass roundups and executions of Jewish men, including his father. Young Yehuda, his mother and his older sister, Lala, obtained forged papers identifying them as Roman Catholics, and decided to make their way to another city, where no one would recognize them. They went first to Krakow, then to Warsaw. The family was forced into labor on a German farm, but survived and eventually were freed by the advancing Red Army. They emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, where he changed his name and taught himself English by practicing lines from Macbeth. Although his education had stopped at the fifth grade level, he eventually managed to enter Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School and also studied at medical school in Vienna. He emerged from the war with a deep sense of the injustice that had been done to his family and a mission to heal the impact of trauma in others — what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. He did groundbreaking work in the psychological treatment of terminally ill children and also studied how the suffering of parents is transmitted to their children. Many of his patients in private practice were Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors. His approach to treatment often had its roots in his own daily wartime terror, as chronicled in his 1989 memoir, The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir. Dr. Nir came to the USA in 1959 for his medical residency and remained, but was still fervently engaged with Israel. He served as a chief of child psychiatry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 to 1986. In 1973, he married as his second wife Dr. Bonnie Maslin, a psychologist with whom he wrote a number of self-help books on relationships. Their daughter Sarah Maslin Nir became a reporter for The New York Times.

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The Lost Childhood is a gripping story of survival, as told by the author Nir who is reflecting on his childhood as a young Jewish boy living in Poland. Nir begins his story before the war began, telling his of affluent family life and the lavish lifestyle of his parents. The memoir follows through his experiences during the war, moving from city to city in hiding from the Nazis. Much like the diary of Anne Frank, this book is wonderful because it gives the perspective of a coming-of-age boy during a horrific period in history. While the memoir accounts the many horrors that Nir witnessed and experienced himself, it also details his daily life, including crushes on girls and his attempt at fitting in with Polish Gentile boys. This book is an excellent resource for students grades 8-12, and is an informational and extremely interesting read.… (més)
 
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ISBN
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