UNFREE ASSOCIATIONS

Contents

Acknowledgements xi Foreword xiii Introduction 1 1 My Early Life 7 2 Foreshadowing the Future 17 3 Exiled in Prague, 1938 22 4 Institute for Retraining 25 5 Watching the Betrayal 30 6 Panic and Hope 33 7 Horror Spreads 39 8 Terror from a Smuggled Letter 46 9 Theresienstadt, 1943 62 10 Arrival at Auschwitz 77 11 Day of Atonement, 1943 89 12 In Joseph Mengele’s Hospital 92 13 My Parents Arrive in Auschwitz 103 14 Disaster on March 7, 1944 114 15 Life After the Mass Murder of March 1944 128 16 Massacre of the Hungarian Jews 136 17 Mothers with Children 146 18 End of Our Czech Family Camp 148 19 Central Hospital Camp 152 20 Rebellion at the Crematorium 163 Contents 21 My Sister Arrives 165 22 End of an Interminable Epoch 169 23 My Trip to Berlin 173 24 A Lost Piece of Bread 178 25 Deadly Slave Work in Ohrdruf 186 26 An Apple Core 190 27 Cold, Hunger, Hard Labor 192 28 A Turning Point 196 29 I Am a Doctor Again 204 30 Various Encounters 207 31 A Forced March 224 32 Joining the Czechs in Buchenwald 227 33 Awakening from the Nightmare 232 34 The First Weeks of Freedom 235 35 Return to Prague 240 Epilogue 243 Chronology 253 Appendices I Psychology of Nazism and the Survivor 259 II Further Notes on Survivors 277 Selected Bibliography 281 General Index 287 Selected Index—Psychoanalytic 301 Contents This page intentionally left blank. This page intentionally left blank. ...