John, I saw a documentary last year about the aftermath of the death camps. It gave me a completely new insight into the suffering of the next generations of Jews, the children and grandchildren of those who survived.
The relationship between one man, a well known tv guy in Israel, and his mother, a survivor of Auchswitz, had completely broken down. They no longer spoke to eachother.
The mother had brought him up alone. She had no one to talk to about the horrors she had experienced. So, from his earliest years, she had 'unloaded' on him. She filled his young mind with terrifying images. Of course when he was older he reacted against her. He accused her of psychologically abusing him. He could not comprehend why anyone would do that to a child.
There was some sort of reconciliation in the end once they both realised that they were both victims. But it did take years of counselling. The whole story was quite heartbreaking, the depth of the damage done, unfathomable.