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19 digital objects.

Description

Interviews of Holocaust survivors conducted in the 1970s by UCSD Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Regent Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D. Professor Dimsdale questioned subjects about coping behavior and stress during their time in Nazi Concentration Camps and Labor Camps during World War II. He asked questions about their health before and after their internment and what actions helped them to survive during a time of extreme stress. The collection also includes a 1971 lecture given by Viktor Frankl.

Date Collected

• 1969-1973

Date Issued

• 2021

Interviewer

• Dimsdale, Joel E.

Topics

• Concentration camps
• History
• Holocaust survivors
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Oral history
• World War, 1939-1945

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• sound recording-nonmusical

Identifier

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0H41RM1

Related Resource

Primary associated publication

• Dimsdale, Joel E. (1974). The coping behavior of Nazi concentration camp survivors. American Journal of Psychiatry, 131(7), 792-797. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.792
• Dimsdale, Joel E. (1978). Coping -- Every Man's War. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 32(3), 402-413. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.3.402
• Dimsdale, Joel E. (1980) Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust. Washington: Hemisphere Pub. Corp., ISBN:0891161457

Cite This Work

Dimsdale, Joel E. (2021) Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D. Holocaust Survivor Interview Collection. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0H41RM1