Report on a survey of the psychological conditions of the surviving children in Europe," Dr. Paul Friedman

Presents and evaluates a report by the Polish-born psychiatrist Dr. Paul Friedman who wrote this up following his trip in 1946 to homes and orphanages for child survivors of the Holocaust in France, Germany, Switzerland and Poland. He found that in most institutions caring for Jewish child survivors, the care-givers were unskilled and not properly trained for the job. Friedman's report is an invaluable resource for historians of the immediate postwar period as well as for researchers who examine the effects of trauma on young children