Although each survivor had her own personality, with different emotional growth experiences and psychological developmental levels, and even though the traumas the survivors went through were different in nature and severity, all of them shared the experience of the terror of the Holocaust. The rough uprooting from their familiar surroundings, the loss of their families, the extended exposure to humiliation, hunger, torture and sometimes even sexual abuse of their own bodies or the bodies of their close relatives, the defence of their physical existence in conditions of extended life-and-death anxiety - all of these left scars on their souls. Mter the Holocaust both the young women and the more mature women felt that they were in an infinite existential vacuum and that a profound isolation filled their inner existence; that is, this experience was characteristic of all the survivors, whatever their age.