During the 1990s, the author learned of a large number of Holocaust survivors in Israeli psychiatric hospitals. Diagnosed with schizophrenia or related disorders, most had no families, and many had been hospitalized since the 1940s. The author hypothesized that their psychological impairment may have resulted from traumatic experience that had erased their history. After taking videotestimonies of a group of otherwise silent, psychotic patients, the author noted certain common features. Primary among these was an extreme difficulty in remembering, often accompanied by screen memories. Psychotic survivors had neither ego resources nor external love objects sufficiently intact to enable normal testimony to occur. Their testimonies were fragmented, without narrative flow, yet the author perceived in them a pervasive yearning to reconnect, and experienced countertransference feelings of protectiveness. This resulted in a much higher rate of verbal interventions on his part, which created a holding matrix that helped survivors tell their experiences. The videotestimony project served as a partially successful intervention enabling survivors to reintegrate into their own history and hospital setting. The success of this intervention may be partially measured by the 30% improvement in PTSD scores among survivors five months after the testimony was given (Strous et al., 2005).