William G. Niederland Collection 1903-1989

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William G. Niederland Collection 1903-1989

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Dr. William G. Niederland (1904-1993) was a renowned psychiatrist whoimmigrated to the United States in 1940 via Italy and the Philippines. While he was a psychiatric expert for German indemnification trials ofsurvivors of the Holocaust, Niederland became an advocate of the survivors' claims and an empathetic researcher of their psychic suffering. Heengaged in scientific research on psychic sequelae in Holocaust survivors for more than four decades. Niederland is believed to have discovered the"Survivor Syndrome," as a psychiatric disease and condition. The William G. Niederland Collection contains manuscripts, lectures and publishedwritings by Niederland (and others) as well as 165 court case files consisting of psychiatric opinions, correspondence and court decisionsreferring to individual indemnification cases. Also included are correspondence with his colleagues and material related to his various researchprojects.

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