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Viviane: I do not think that Holocaust survivors are more afflicted with PD than the rest of the people. In our support and exercise group are three concentration camp survivors. There is a couple, he 84 - 6 years PD, his wife, 72 - not afflicted with PD. They were in Auschwitz for about four years. Then there is my husband, 5 years in the camps (Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Birkenau and some internment camps in France before being shipped east), he is 70 and was diagnosed about 6 years ago. He had had similar symptoms before, but was always treated for post traumatic stress disorder until a psychiatrist referred him to a neurologist. Johanna Willner