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Alfred Brauner; Docteur ès-lettres; Françoise Brauner; Docteur en Médicine

JAMA. 1986;256(5):613-616.

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Background: The Children of War Certain experiences are never forgotten. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), one of us (F.B.) worked as a physician and the other (A.B.) organized homes for children who had been evacuated from combat zones. Many of these children were pathetically shocked and grieved. Although we are neither "art therapists" nor psychologists, we felt that describing their experiences, in words or pictures, might help release the children from their memories. We offered them paper and pencils, but it was only several months later that they had recovered enough to be able to draw.¹ We attempted to hide these 10 000 drawings when the German army invaded Paris in 1940, but almost all were discovered and destroyed by the Gestapo. Fifty-six hidden by F.B. were rediscovered in a demolished house 30 years later.²

In 1939, we cared for 130 Jewish children from Germany and Austria . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Association of French Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Paris.

Footnotes
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