Surviving early childhood trauma : effects of the holocaust on survivors' psychological and physiolocial well-being Fridman, A.

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Acknowledgements

This important project was carried out in because of the special nature of the topic, namely, studying Holocaust related issues. The complexity of the project called for collaborative work between Dutch and Israeli scholars and I wish to convey my gratitude to all of them. I would like to thank my Israeli research assistants Tali Grossman, Yamit Ophir Goldstein and Sigal Haimovich for their dedicated and sensitive involvement in this project. My special thanks are conveyed to Dr. Sarit Alkalay for her invaluable contribution to this study. Also, I owe special thanks to my partner Eran and my family and friends for their patience, motivation and love during a challenging time that not always enabled me to give them my full attention. Last but not least, my deepest appreciation to the Holocaust child survivors and their offspring for participating in this study, which required them to address some of their most dreadful life events. They have been helping us for so many years and we owe them a special tribute.

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Ayala Fridman

Ayala Fridman was born September 13, 1976 in , Israel. In 1993 she graduated from the "Ma'ale Shaharut" high school in , located in the southern part of Israel. She studied at the University of Haifa, Israel, and in 2002 she was granted a B.A. degree in psychology and educational counseling. Two years later, in 2004, she completed her M.A. degree in developmental psychology with Distinction of the Dean of the Graduate School - University of Haifa, Israel. Her M.A. thesis – supervised by Prof. David Oppenheim from the Center for the Study for Child Development at the University of Haifa – addressed issues of maternal mind-mindedness communication to infants and its relationship to maternal insightfulness and infant behavior at one year of age. Since 2004 she has been teaching undergraduate classes in Oranim Teachers‟ College, in nursing school and in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa. She has also guided Bedouin childcare providers in child development-related issues and in acquiring strategies for working with parents in the Misgav Regional Municipality, Israel. During her internship in developmental psychology she worked in the Unit for Psychological-Developmental Intervention in the Ministry of Health in Haifa and in the Unit for Community Developmental Services in the northern city of Migdal Ha'emek, Israel. She has been a research fellow at the Center for the Study for Child Development at the University of Haifa since 2007. With support of the Spinoza Prize, awarded to Marinus van IJzendoorn by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO), Ayala collected data for her Ph.D. research project at the University of Haifa and wrote her dissertation as a doctoral student at Leiden University.