“Never Again” loses all its meaning—can Holocaust survivors survive again? - The Lancet

“Never Again” loses all its meaning—can Holocaust survivors survive again? - The Lancet: I have been a geriatrician for more than half of my nearly 74 years and a Jew all my life. In my early days practising in Canada, I felt privileged to look after veterans of the First World War. To me, these older soldiers (mostly men), who had suffered so terribly in the service of their country, were now safe. I enjoyed every minute that I looked after them: treating their lungs destroyed by poison gas, holding their gnarled and battle-scarred hands, listening to their war stories, and helping them with their post-traumatic stress disorder.