This is a very good thread NF and thanks for starting it. I am very interested in what you have to say as I am heavily influenced by the holocaust in my life now. My partner is Jewish and his extended family dissappeared in Auschwitz. Luckily his mother only a young child during the war survived as she and her mother were living in hiding in an annexxe to a house here in Holland. My partner like many suffers greatly from the terrors and memories and what if's that took place during the holocaust. He was diagnosed at the age of 13 with a type of PTSD related to the holocaust, I cant translate it into english but he is unable to process what happened as it is too traumatic, eventhough he was not in it. We cannot watch any movie related to the holocaust as it is too close to comfort for him and he gets extremely distressed. We have been on several occassions to the holocaust memorial in Berlin and again it is very distressing.

Indeed you are right people with mental health issues suffered greatly also during the war alongside Jews, Homosexuals and Gypsies from central europe.

Thank you for remembering those.