19 Facts About Leo Eitinger

Leo Eitinger was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator.

Leo Eitinger was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later.

Leo Eitinger devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan, Primo Levi and many others to commit suicide several decades after the experience.

Leo Eitinger was born in Lomnice, Austria-Hungary.

Leo Eitinger grew up as the youngest of six siblings in a Jewish middle class home as the son of Salomon Eitinger and Helene Kurz.

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Leo Eitinger studied medicine at the Masaryk University of Brno, graduating in 1937.

Leo Eitinger fled Nazi persecution of Jews and came to Norway as a refugee with the help of a Nansen passport after the German occupation of the Czechoslovak Republic in March 1939.

Leo Eitinger was given permission to work as a resident in psychiatry in Norway in Bodø, but the permission was revoked by the Nazis after the German invasion of Norway in 1940.

Leo Eitinger stayed underground from January 1941 until he was arrested in March 1942.

Leo Eitinger was imprisoned in various places throughout Norway and was deported on 24 February 1943, arriving at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

In 1966 Leo Eitinger was appointed professor of psychiatry at the University of Oslo and became Head of the University Psychiatric Clinic.

Leo Eitinger allocated all his time and efforts to the study of human suffering with emphasis on clinical psychiatry, in particular victimology and disaster psychiatry.

Leo Eitinger conducted several landmark studies about the long-term psychological and physical effects of extreme stress and about being a refugee.

Leo Eitinger's work confirmed that the rate of mental illness among refugees appeared much more frequently than in the general population.

Leo Eitinger was a board member and served a chairman of the Norwegian Psychiatric Association from 1963 to 1967.

Leo Eitinger served as chairman of the Psychiatric Section of the Forensic Commission and was President of the Nordic Psychiatry Congresse in 1962 and 1987.

Leo Eitinger was elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 1971 and was a member of several foreign scientific and psychiatric associations.

Leo Eitinger received a number of Norwegian and foreign honors including the Fritt Ord Award in 1988.

Leo and Lisl Eitinger devoted their lives to the promotion of human rights and the fight against injustice and racism.