TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1947//
TI  - The Personality of Inmates of Concentration Camps
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Bloch, H. A.
SP  - 335
EP  - 341
VL  - 52
IS  - 4
N2  - The effect of life in a concentration camp upon the behavior and personality of former inmates is explored through case studies. The principal findings are based upon a limited control group of 547 Jewish women. The formation of the structural characteristics normally found in institutions of detention was prevented by unique self-attitudes, isolation, and the psychological effects of trauma. Following liberation, the social patterns appear to be those of desocialization, manifested in nascent person-to-person, dependent relations, which lack many of expected elements of group structure.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/220019
ID  - ref1
ER  -