Shamai Davidson [SEP] occupation
Shamai Davidson
Shamai Davidson (; 1926–1986) was an Israeli professor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who spent 30 years working with Holocaust survivors, trying to understand the nature of their experience. He was Medical Director of Shalvata Mental Health Center and served as Head of the Elie Wiesel Chair for the Study of the Psycho-Social Trauma of the Holocaust.
Davidson witnessed the Nazi terror and the death of his aunts and cousins in the Warsaw Ghetto, Łódź Ghetto, and the gas vans of Chelmno. He studied medicine at the
individual difference."
External links.
- Holding on to Humanity: Message of Holocaust Survivors - The Shamai Davidson Papers at Amazon.com
- Davidson's Biography