(Reuters) Carolyn Crist - Holocaust survivors in Israel integrate memories of horror and loss in their lives with a sense of resilience, researchers found. "Even though they're haunted by memories, they've carved out lives with families and careers," said study co-author Norm O'Rourke, a psychologist at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. They "do not define their lives based on trauma and loss, but on their ability to rise from the ashes and bear witness to the past to help secure the future," O'Rourke's team writes in The Gerontologist. O'Rourke and colleagues interviewed 269 Holocaust survivors in Israel. "As they talked about what happened, it wasn't something that occurred 70 years ago. It sounds like it happened yesterday, which is part of the nature of trauma," he said. For many, the Holocaust is still a silent presence in daily life.
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