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
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.
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Following the Holocaust, tales circulated about survivors having supernatural experiences. One New York journalist documented them obsessively
Ofry Ilany, Haaretz.com, May 1, 2020
Quote: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.