The distinguished psychiatrist Dr Hans Keilson will speak about his life's work in psychiatric trauma. Born in Germany in 1909, he published his first novel Das Leben geht weiter (Life goes on) in 1933, shortly before his emigration to the Netherlands. In 1943 he went underground and worked as a doctor and courier for the resistance group "Vrije Groepen Amsterdam". In 1948 he received his Dutch approbation as a doctor and subsequently specialised in psychiatry and psychoanalisis.
Hans Keilson's thesis, published in 1979, Sequentielle Traumatisierung bei Kindern (Sequential Traumatisation in Children), has been translated into several languages and was based on the therapeutic work he carried out on behalf of Le Ezrat HaJeled until 1970. His most recent work Sieben Sterne. Reden, Gedichte und eine Geschichte. Mit einem Nachwort von Gerhard Kurz (Seven stars. Speeches, Poems and a Story. With a postsript by Gerhard Kurz) was published in 2003. An edition of his collected works is currently in preparation with the renowned publishing house S. Fischer.
