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Dear Editors,
‘The destiny of an unacknowledged trauma: The deferred retroactive effect of après-coup in the hidden Jewish children of wartime Belgium’ by Adeline Fohn and Susann Heenen-Wolff offers a poignant account on a lesser-known part of the Holocaust: the plight of Jewish children who in World War II were taken away from their parents, hidden, and taken away from their foster parents when the war ended. However, the conceptual conclusions, bearing on core aspects of psychoanalysis, deserve close scrutiny.
First, the method: two or three 60 to 90 minute interviews within three months, involving 60 Jewish adults aged between 66 and 79 years of age,