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This paper presents an analysis of the vicissitudes of individual and group identification processes during and after the Holocaust. We also examine denial as a defence mechanism when confronted with massive traumatization, and in the period of readaptation and reintegration to life. Identification with (idealized) lost objects and with group myths, in fantasy as well as in action, and denial sustained by fantasy, words and acts, were connected to mourning processes which
helped to initiate the re-individuation process developing in face of danger.