This Week on Wellbeing is the second and final episode in our mini-series talking about the mental health impacts of the Holocaust. We are joined by Holocaust survivor Peter Halas. Peter was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1939 and when Germany invaded his country in March 1944 it sent Peter's family into hiding. During this time Peter’s mother along with his grandparents were shot and killed by Nazis. He gives a unique historical and generational perspective on mental health.

In this episode Peter talks about the impact the Holocaust had on him as a young child and even on his life today, the experiences that he had during the Holocaust, how it had affected him over time, the lack of mental health support available directly following the Holocaust, his own thoughts on mental health, and how it would have been helpful for people like him to have had mental health support following the tragedy that was the Holocaust. 

"I often think how life would have been different if the war didn't happen." - Peter Halas on this episode of Wellbeing

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