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The Psychological Effects of Starvation in the Holocaust: The Dehumanization and Deterioration of its Victims

Friday, November 8, 2013: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bayside A (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Kelly Young , Emerson College
My paper exposes the link between the intense starvation implemented by the Nazi regime in concentration camps during the Holocaust and the psychological state of the victims of the camp system. In this essay I specifically explore the deteriorative and dehumanizing effects that starvation played on the mind of the camp prisoner.