ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I use data from Holocaust survivor narratives to continue to build a framework for understanding critical resilience; this time under oppression in the form of genocidal conditions. I will very briefly present a summary of extant Holocaust survivor findings. I will then present our research data, including information on the adversities faced and the way survivors overcame them, and discuss examples of Holocaust survivors who dedicated the rest of their lives to improving the world or who now feel they can persevere through anything, given what they have already survived. These individuals differ from those discussed in other chapters because of the advanced age of the survivors, as well as their unique accounts of physical and psychological degradation and survival.
