Am J Psychiatry 1982; 139:773-777
Copyright © 1982 by American Psychiatric Association
Impairment in Holocaust survivors after 33 years: data from an unbiased community sample
WW Eaton, JJ Sigal and M Weinfeld
The authors compared the psychiatric status of 135 survivors of the
Holocaust with that of control subjects. This study stands apart from most
previous reports in that the two groups were generated by a random sample
survey of all heads of households in a community (Montreal). Survivors were
more likely to have mild psychiatric symptoms regardless of the age at
which they experienced the Holocaust. The difference between survivors and
controls in levels of mild psychiatric symptoms was greatly amplified in
those respondents who perceived a recent increase in anti-Semitism in
Montreal.
