Terri is Jewish, she survived the Warsaw Ghetto, and I am also Jewish, and both of us have been immersed in holocaust literature. We are puzzled why so little has been written about the holocaust in psychoanalysis. I am puzzled by your puzzlement, she replied immediately. Why should psychoanalysts in particular write about the war? Because so many Jewish analysts are refugees from Nazism. But that has nothing to do with psychoanalysis. But doesn’t trauma play a central role in analytic theory? Anna Freud shrugged her shoulders, apparently dismissing my concerns as uninteresting. I was deeply disappointed. Anna Freud was Jewish [...]. I tried again. I know that your father never wrote anything about the Nazis, but he must have talked to you about it. What did he say? She simply shrugged her shoulders, and sat silently. I could not tell if she meant that he had told her nothing, or if she did not intend to tell me anything. pp. 154f