How does one combine memoir, ethnography, self-discovery, and history, while contributing to two important bodies of literature—Holocaust and psychotherapy—in an eminently readable book? Do what Leila Levinson has done in Gated Grief: The Daughter of a GI Concentration Camp Liberator Discovers a Legacy of Trauma (Cable Publishing, 2011). The breadth of her project is evident even in the awards it has won—one for women’s memoir… [Read More]
Filed Under: concentration camp, ethnography, Gated Grief, Holocaust, Leila Levinson, memoir, Nordhausen, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, transgenerational trauma, veterans, World War II
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