Dominant attitudes of adult children of Holocaust survivors toward their parents

This paper addresses the results of a heuristic-phenomenological study exploring the experience of adult children of Holocaust survivors. It explores the evolving nature of the survivor/parent-child relationship from childhood into adulthood. Many differences are revealed depending on a variety of factors such as country of origin, duration of parent incarceration, pre-Holocaust personality, age at time of incarceration. The issue is how these differences and situations effected their personalities and subsequently effected the relationship they had with their children