Article about Post-traumatic stress disorder

On 12 April 1951, Israel's Knesset announced "Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah U'Mered HaGetao) to 27 be Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. The name was later simplified Yom HaShoah. The date marks the anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, and is in memory of six million Jews who were murdered, all those who have suffered, all those who fought and of those who survived the Nazi atrocities. This year, Yom HaShoah will tomorrow, 12 April. Tonight, Israel begins its 24 hours after the memory of the Holocaust. Jewish and non-Jewish people will remember by lighting candles to provide prayer, singing, speeches and poems and shed no doubt by many a tear. But while the focus is and quite rightly so, to the millions who were murdered and the survivors who have built a new life in the Jewish state "is much less ever said to the survivors of mental illness is part of the Holocaust legacy . "By refusing chilling words:" Some patients, shower, because it reminds them of the gas chambers. Others hoard meat pillows, because they fear hunger, my hometown newspaper, and several other publications-direct our attention to this grim occasion for those who never finished the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors, like those at the Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center in northern Israel, where "patients remain frozen in time. Even today, 65 years after the end of World War II, there are sometimes cries "The Nazis! '"Shaar Menashe is a place where ... Most patients are still not talking. You are introverted and unresponsive. They mumble and shake uncontrollably, break before blank screens and look aimlessly into the distance while sucking hard on cigarettes. "These are the forgotten people. These are the ones who were left behind, people who have fallen between the cracks, "said Rachel Tiram, the investment of many years of social worker. People like Meir Moskowitz, 81, the pogroms and days in a narrow cattle car in his home country Romania endured. His body trembles. During five hours in the company of visitors, he said only one word: 'Germania'. "And Arieh Bleier," a gentle, 87-year-old Hungarian with deep, dark eyes, survived the concentration camp Mauthausen. His parents and brother perished in Auschwitz. When asked about the Second World War, he looked away and shook his head. "Or Devora Amiel," 78 and toothless, slurred her speech inflated with a tongue of drugs. She escaped a Polish ghetto, was brought up in the rest of a Christian family and later in an orphanage. She never knew what happened to her family. "" It is difficult to talk about it, very hard, "she said. "After you go through it, it's hard to say ... You can scream about it. "According to the article: Grinshpoon Alexander, director of the Shaar Menashe, said all survivors have some form of post traumatic stress disorder. But those are about 80 men in his care and women who could not overcome their trauma of the war, perhaps because her suffering was so deep, or because they are predisposed to mental illness - or perhaps because their minds simply crashed under the load from their experiences. When we forget the six million Jews who remember more than 60 years died in the Holocaust, we are not the survivors, especially those who have terrible nightmares, scream still on IT which, for the "shadow of the death camp crematoria, gas chambers and deportations is never far away. "To read this tragic story, please click here. Image: Courtesy Isurvived.org