“I had to cut off my feelings” | Rena Bernstein on Psychological Trauma | USC Shoah Foundation
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"In order to survive, I had to cut my feelings off completely. It was intolerable and impossible to go on living with the kind of feelings I was feeling. Terror, abandonment… […] In order to survive, I had to cut off my feelings and live a fantasy, which is what I did.”
At the age of 4, Holocaust survivor Rena Bernstein was separated from her parents, who sent her to hide in a remote wood in Poland. Rena’s powerful testimony delves into the immediate and permanent psychological consequences of war and genocide.
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