The Price of Survival

More than thirty years ago Louis van Gasteren made the documentary BEGRIJPT U NU WAAROM IK HUIL about a therapeutic LSD session that professor Jan Bastiaans did with a traumatised exprisoner of German concentration camps The patient died in late 2000 at the age of 81 He left a wife and three children Poignant conversations with the widow and youngest son and excerpts from letters from the other two children reveal that a concentration camp syndrome can also inflict deep wounds in those who have not personally experienced it