Conceptualizing a Holocaust Survivorship Model

This article is one of the first in an issue that presents the findings of the study “Forgiveness, Resiliency, and Survivorship Among Holocaust Survivors” funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The issue includes findings from a major quantitative study of 133 survivors and a number of smaller qualitative studies of sub-samples of survivors. The Templeton study incorporated a number of theoretical frameworks to describe critical events in survivors' lives before, during, and after the Nazi Holocaust. Each framework offered a perspective on how people dealt with extreme stress and trauma and what was required for them to survive and then make meaning of these events, adapt, and grow. A Holocaust Survivorship Model was created to suggest how individuals, families, and communities develop a positive engagement with life after long-term exposure to adverse and even life-threatening events. This article summarizes these findings and describes how they were used to conceptualize a preliminary model

Forgiveness · Holocaust survivors · Life course approach · Meaning (existential · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Posttraumatic growth · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Survivorship curve · The Holocaust · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Demography · Social Psychology

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