Unspoken memories of Holocaust survivors find silent and nonpathological expression

A faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa presented the results of a new research at an international Holocaust conference held at the University of Haifa. The findings presented: Unspoken memories of Holocaust survivors find silent and non-pat...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

A brief encounter with a Jewish prostitute might have led Hitler to orchestrate the genocidal Holocaust, according to a new study by psychiatrists. Hitler might have contracted syphilis, which, possibly untreated, led to his madness and eventually targeting of the Jews and the mentally reta...

Survivors of Holocaust More Likely to Have Cancer

Survivors of the Holocaust are more likely to suffer from cancer and die from it, researchers say. Nani Vine Raviv and his colleagues at Israel's //Haifa University suspect that cancers are most likely caused by the near-starvation of European Jews during World War II. The researchers l...

Hartford grants increase support for geriatric social work training

...the new faculty scholars and their primary research topics: Keith Anderson, PhD The Ohio State University Research Topic: Family Caregiving for holocaust Survivors: Understanding the Effects of Trauma Sunha Choi, PhD SUNY at Binghamton Research Topic: Disparities in Out-of-Pocket Financial Burden...

Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda Dedicated 15 Years After Genocide to Provide Healing Community to African Orphans

...oint Distribution Committee Shares Lessons Learned Serving Orphans from the holocaust in Israel NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- " I feel like ...d speeches by students. "Within the Jewish world, we have worked with holocaust survivors to heal some of the psychological wounds of the past," said JDC's...

The Rev. Michael J. O'Connell Assumes Chairmanship of Hazelden Foundation Board of Trustees

...romote interfaith dialogue and understanding; led trips with Catholic and Jewish congregants to holy sites around the world; and commissioned a sacred holocaust memorial oratorio, "To Be Certain of the Dawn," as a gift to the Jewish people in 2001. O'Connell also serves as a board member for the Saint Jo...

Lawyers Provide Free Assistance at 15 Hospitals for National Health Care Decisions Day

...LAG provides specialized legal assistance for immigrants, the elderly, victims of domestic violence, the chronically ill, children with special needs, holocaust survivors and many other less fortunate members of society. www.nylag.org . ...

Chicago School of Professional Psychology Announces New Ph.D. in International Psychology

...ogram, in particular the Trauma Services concentration, was Dr. Yael Danieli, a clinical psychologist who co-founded and directs the Group Project for holocaust Survivors and Their Children in New York. Dr. Danieli, who serves as a distinguished professor of international psychology at The Chicago School, sees...

Obama to Allow Forcing Doctors to Do Abortions, Says the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

... defense of it." Saddam Hussein ordered doctors to amputate the right hands of merchants who conducted business in dollars, and atrocities of the holocaust were perpetrated by ordering doctors to do inhumane and unthinkable procedures. We do not ever want to allow that in the United States. But the ...

Researcher Finds Most Will Inflict Pain on Others If Prodded

...ork often wonder whether results would be any different today," Burger said in a news release issued by the journal. "Many point to the lessons of the holocaust and argue that there is greater societal awareness of the dangers of blind obedience. But what I found is the same situational factors that affected o...

Holocaust in Biological News

University of Texas at Austin engineer elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

...hool of Engineering. "His election as an AAAS fellow is richly deserved." As a child, Heller was detained in a concentration camp, but survived the holocaust and earned degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He immigrated to the United States in 1962. After postdoctoral work at the University of C...

Holocaust in Biological Definition

Eugenics

... Jews , gypsies , and homosexuals , during the holocaust , and much of the killing equipment and methods em...ng the master race (Washington, DC: United States holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004). online exhibit Donald ...edicine: Creating the Master Race" (United States holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit) DNA: Pandora's Box - ...

Evolution

...human civilization was subverting natural selection by allowing the "less fit" to survive and "out-breed" the "more fit." After the atrocities of the holocaust became linked with eugenics, it greatly fell out of favor with public and scientific opinion (though it was never universally accepted by either). ...

Origin of life

...line behaviors of clays Model of origin of life involving zeolite, press release for PNAS paper The Birth of Complex Cells, and the oxygen holocaust — by Christian de Duve Possible Connections Between Interstellar Chemistry and the Origin of Life on the Earth Scientists Find Clues T...