How did trauma of the Holocaust affect how people formed relationships both during and after the events? How might this trauma have changed how they trusted others?

How did the Holocaust change the way that families and marriages worked? What are some things that were different about about these relationships before vs after the Holocaust?

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The trauma of the Holocaust made survivors struggle with trust, causing them to either cling tightly to relationships or withdraw emotionally. Marriage often became a way to rebuild hope and strength together.

Families before the Holocaust functioned more traditionally, but after, roles shifted. Children often cared for their parents emotionally, while parents either became overprotective or distant due to their own trauma. Marriage after the Holocaust symbolized survival and the desire to rebuild life.

The people who had gotten married during those times still had hope through the struggle. only 11 couples married during those times so trust was scares and hard to come by.

Children of holocaust survivors were alienated and neglected from the their parents who had trauma and ptsd from it. the pain left the parents feeling emotionally unavailable for their children and loved ones

The trauma affected how people made relationships because of how scarred they were from the people who ran the camps. This brought very bad trust issues and mental health issues making it harder to function together as family or friends, they would either tell their kids the horrible stories or never say a word about it.

Marriages before the holocaust were easier and better for them but during the holocaust they would be brave and show their true love for eachother no matter what in the ghettos, in the camps, and in secret. This changed how people got married.

Trauma of the Holocaust affected how people formed relationships due to wanting to feel connected and loved. 

The trauma of the holocaust formed people's relationships because they had just wanted a purpose in their life at the time. They felt as if a relationship would give them stability in life. They wanted something to look forward to after the holocaust such as building a house and making a family.

The holocaust changed the way families and marriages worked because of all the trauma it caused. Children felt so much remorse for their parents since their parents went through so much. Sometimes they had to parent their parents due to all that happened they sometimes couldnt function properly. Sometimes the parents either traumatized their own children with their past or never mentioned it. A lot of children were neglected by their parents. This has caused family destruction where the whole family has fallen apart due to the holocaust trauma. 

The trauma of the Holocaust made the survivors struggle with trusting one and another causing them to withdraw emotionally and became mentally unstable

Marriage was a way of survival during the Holocaust and children needs were neglected and most of the time they became the parents to their parents, children often internalized their parents pain. many parents who survived the war where found to be emotionally unavailable and neglected their children

This trauma harshly affected peoples trust so some found it hard to build or form relationships during and after the Holocaust because they didn't know who was trustworthy and who was just trying to survive.

Some families fell apart because of their trust issues and some parents weren't able to be a parent for their children leaving the children parenting the parents in a way. While others were too involved in another's life because they were worried about them. Most people married to survive. This traumatic event brought some people answers in love that they might have been unsure about before and married for faith, hope, and love. These marriages made the struggling people stronger together.

people got married in Holocaust because they needed hope and a sense of normal life.

The trauma caused by the events that occurred in the Holocaust made many struggle with trust and love. Some got married in the Holocaust to escape the gloomy atmosphere of it.

Holocaust survivors had problems with trust, so it was much more difficult for them to build a relationship with someone. Also, these people could be afraid to start a relationship with someone because of the fear of loss, since during the Holocaust they could lose their relatives.

During World War II, only 11 Jewish couples got married. The purpose of marriage was to survive and preserve the family. Holocaust survivors often passed on their injuries to children. Children could either become very attached to the family or distance themselves. Parents may talk too much about their horror, or even close in on themselves. Because of this, children often become parents for their parents, trying to comfort them.

The trauma of the Holocaust affected how people formed relationships was that they had to rely on each other to find the will to live through the pain, in a way. People got married in the Holocaust to make up for all of the losses they experienced. When they became parents, they tried to push their children to do things that they could not have done. Yet, they were unreachable because they were emotionally unavailable due to the trauma they had. 

The trauma of the Holocaust changed the way that families and marriages worked after the Holocaust because it shattered everyone's ability to have good relationships within the family. Before, families were very connected and marriages were out of love. However, after the Holocaust, everyone’s mental and emotional states were in pieces. Because of this, the family becomes dysfunctional due to the parents not being emotionally available for their kids, the kids having to act as a parent towards their parents, and the constant pressure parents put on their kid to achieve things that they did not.

The trauma of the Holocaust affects how people formed relationships because marriage was no longer just about love, but survival as well. This led to women marrying men with specific documents, so they could be protected.

The Holocaust changed the way that families and marriages worked before vs after the Holocaust because after the start of the Holocaust would cause families to be torn apart. Since the extreme conditions would make parents go insane to the point that their own children would be like their parents.

During the holocaust, most formed relationships were to save and protect each other's life. They wanted to feel stability after such a traumatic event. Survivors either cling to relationships they had/made or were emotionally unavailable.

The holocaust change the way that familys function before and after negatively. Before the holocaust families were more traditional and in line. After the holocaust families were either protective or distant due to trauma. Marriage was symbolized as desire to rebuild life.

Trauma from the Holocaust caused survivors to struggle with trusting their partner, which made them withdraw emotionally from their relationships and took a heavy toll on their emotional well-being.

The Holocaust completely changed the landscape of marriage and family because of all the trauma that was caused from the Holocaust. Children felt deep remorse for their parents because of everything that they went through, which meant that sometimes children would have to care for their parents emotionally, which took a toll on young children.

The trauma of the Holocaust caused only 11 couples to have the courage to marry, and it also caused these couples to marry in order to find a place to belong and feel the love of a family. The trauma of the Holocaust made it so that people could not trust in creating a relationship because the fear that the people they loved could die at any moment gave them no choice but to be afraid and distrustful.

Pre-Holocaust families could be said to have focused on caring for the children, but after the Holocaust, the roles were reversed, as it was the children who took care of their parents emotionally. Overprotection and lack of communication are also factors that truly affect a child's development. Post-Holocaust families focused on rebuilding parents who had been broken by trauma.

Some people wanted to be able to build a new life; this led to some people marrying others that had papers to protect their families.  But others married because they wanted to have a place in the world where they could belong.

It changed the way families worked because most children had to become parents to both their parents and younger siblings. It also led to a lot of emotional neglect and caused a negative outlook on other family members. Parents would also be overprotective with their children and depend on keeping the family together, which caused lots of resentment and feelings of betrayal when the kids grew up and left home.

The trauma affected both relationships during and after the holocaust because it made the families work together to have a better life. it made the families stronger, and more willing to work together and find solutions so their lives can be better. and after the holocaust, it made the families more able to trust each other more and connect emotionally so they are able to rebuild and strengthen the hope for a better life together.

2. Before the holocaust family's would acted very traditionally, but after the holocaust the children would care more about their parents emotions than other people kids. Jewish parents that were in the camps with kids are more likely to neglect their children, and this caused family to fall apart because of the drama of the holocaust.

Trauma from the Holocaust caused physical and mental scars and this caused families to have a strong sense of distrust and had a hard time trying to love. And although some had trouble trying to love, some people married within the horrors of the Holocaust in order to have an escape from the horrors and rebuild their lives.

Before the holocaust families had normal lives, but after the holocaust ended children of the survivors never got to live the normal way of a child as their parents were scarred and were not able to raise them like they should have.

The trauma of the Holocaust caused survivors struggle with trust, affecting their relationship which made it harder to bring back together because survivors were dealing with mental health issue after the Holocaust. After the Holocaust many survivors were struggling with trust because of all the trauma they saw and it would take some time for them to bring back together.

Marriage was a way for survival because of all the trauma that was caused. Before the relationship, many Jews had a hard time trusting each other because they felt that it would best not interact, after the relationship, some men and women shows their love for each other and decide to get married because it was a way to survive.