Holocaust. The. A word that to many people might bring many disturbing thoughts and unpleasant memories. The Holocaust was a traumatic, systematic, persecution that murdered six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust not only killed six million Jews, but traumatized the lives of millions more. So much so, that relatives of the victims are still living with the mental side effects of the tragedy. There have been reports that the relatives of the Holocaust victims, are still experiencing mental illnesses, including PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, etc. Trauma’s relationship with genetic factors involves the heritability of predisposition to mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, or PTSD, which ultimately influences one’s response to their day to…show more content… In the summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon — a country in West Asia. Although the conflict of the situation, lasted four months, the notorious massacre of hundreds of civilian refugees in Beirut by Lebanese militias, while the Israeli army stood by. Majority of the Israeli soldiers ended up developing post-traumatic stress disorder. “Suffering nightmares and flashbacks about what they had seen. When Zahava Solomon, an epidemiologist with the Israeli army, examined the figures, she found that PTSD rates were highest in one particular group: those who’s parents had survived the Holocaust in Europe during the Second World War.” (Spinney). This connection not only goes to show how the conflicts of the environmental damage not only triggered the chances of the survivors having PTSD, but it makes a connection to how much the war impacts a victim and their families. PTSD (and other mental illnesses) can also be hereditary, more than people think they are. PTSD heritability — the level of influence has a variability of PTSD risk in the population between five and twenty percent. Researchers have also found that children of the traumatized
