The author presents the case of a patient, now living in Israel, who had been deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of thirteen. In the initial period after her liberation, she protected herself with an apathic shielding posture against the horrible experiences of the trip to the camp and the imprisonment. In this way she succeeded in carrying on a 'more or less normal life'; for years she did not exhibit the symptoms of the so-called survivor syndrome. Only after the end of the six-day war of 1967, which she accepted with notable composure, did the memory of the traumatic experiences she had suffered break through. Supportive psychotherapy resulted in a favorable outcome.