The Holocaust Survivors Who Had 'Psychic' Experiences

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The Holocaust Survivors Who Had 'Psychic' Experiences, and the Man Who Documented Them
Following the Holocaust, tales circulated about survivors having supernatural experiences. One New York journalist documented them obsessively

Ofry Ilany, Haaretz.com, May 1, 2020

One day in late 1942, in the predawn hours, the writer Shea Tenenbaum was jolted out of his sleep. In a dream he heard his niece, Chayale, cry out. Tenenbaum, a well-known figure in American Yiddish circles, had been living in New York since 1934. Chayale had stayed behind in Lublin with her family. “She stayed there, across the sea, in Hitler’s hell,” Tenenbaum recalled. He broke out in a cold sweat and knew something terrible had befallen his relative.

“I also saw multitudes of camps of Jews, shouting, falling, being pushed, trampled, choking. Fear of God!” he wrote in his diary on the morning of November 9.

At the time, almost no one knew in America about the scale of the Nazis’ crimes. But a few years later, at the end of the war, his nephew, Chayale’s brother, told Tenenbaum about the murder of members of their family in the Majdanek camp. He afterward discovered that the last Lublin Jews were murdered on November 9, 1942.

Tenenbaum’s testimony was incorporated into a now-forgotten work published in two volumes (“The Other Dimension,”1967; “Expanded Parapsychology,” 1973; both in Hebrew) by the New York-based Jewish journalist and writer Aaron Zeitlin. (...)

p.s. The author of the piece writes... The term parapsychology is hardly in use today: There is general agreement that it is a pseudoscience. 

Good spot that, Ian ! It took a quite a while for the link to load for me and when it did, it seemed to jump.. and wouldn't move back. I didn't see any mention of the sightings of angels in the deathcamps (reported by the condemned) such as were investigated by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in the early days of her research? Didn't they scratch pictures of angels onto the walls, I seem to remember.

In fact it was butterflies wasn't it !

Buterflies and The holocaust, Source #2:

A Personal Recollection From Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a doctor widely known for her work on death and dying, wrote in her book The Wheel of Life, A Memoir of Living and Dying, about her journey to the site of the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland after World War II. She visited the children’s barracks, where she encountered clothes and little shoes tossed aside, but she also saw something that at first surprised and then amazed her. Carved into the walls with pebbles and fingernails were butterflies, hundreds and hundreds of them. Spellbound by the sight of butterflies drawn on the wall, she couldn’t help but wonder why they were there and what they meant. Twenty-five years later, after listening to hundreds of terminally ill patients, she finally realized that the prisoners in the camps must have known that they were going to die. “They knew that soon they would become butterflies.

 Once dead, they would be out of that hellish place. Not tortured anymore. Not separated from their families. Not sent to gas chambers. None of this gruesome life mattered anymore. Soon they would leave their bodies the way a butterfly leaves its cocoon. And I realized that was the message they wanted to leave for future generations. . . .It also provided the imagery that I would use for the rest of my career to explain the process of death and dying.”

www.spiritofbutterflies.com

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I don't remember if I read that specific research and don't remember that bit of it anyway.

I don't remember if I read that specific research and don't remember that bit of it anyway.

My memory could be faulty of course. In the strict sense, I got the angel bit wrong because they drew butterflies of course but
I do vaguely remember Kubler Ross herself making the assumption that they must have seen something (angelic/beings of light?)otherworldly because if not, why draw such a symbol.

Then again, I suppose one could offer other more 'down to earth' interpretations.