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Holocaust survivors at a nursing home in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2016. The damaging effects of life under Nazi rule have long been known with many victims having experienced periods of protracted emotional and physical torture, malnutrition, and mass exposure to disease. But recent research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even for those who survived, their health and mortality continued to be directly impacted long after the end of the Holocaust. The study, led by Dr. Iaroslav Youssim and Dr. Hagit Hochner from the School of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (

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