Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität zu Breslau, 1936. / Vita.

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität zu Breslau, 1936. / Vita.

This thesis aims to investigate the religious beliefs/practices of Jewish victims of the Holocaust to discover whether these beliefs/practices were experienced as helping them to deal with the horror they were faced with in a spiritual and psychological sense. I am calling this spiritual survival in contrast to physical survival as most of the Holocaust victims did not survive physically. I intend to research this by reading diaries and other works written, as much as possible, during the actual time of the Holocaust. These materials are somewhat limited as even the materials to write with were hard to come by. Therefore, writings by survivors will also be used. I will analyse the materials with the use of two main areas of psychology; firstly, developmental psychology which looks at the development of a sense of self and secondly, recent research on trauma. / Thesis (MArts(ReligionStudies))--University of South Australia, 2003.