| Cancer isn`t one disease. Also, the Holocaust affected people in different ways, because they were in different situations. The same period involved WWII, and there were combat troops with a lot of stress, civilians being subjected to bombings and ultimately (for a definite correlation between war and cancer) atomic bombings for the Japanese. This whole story seems to be unscientific at this point, more anecdotal. Comparing survivors of polluted Europe with early Zionists is kind of a problem. You are comparing self-chosen immigrants who are likely to be very healthy with people who had a high fat old fashioned diet pre-war, and who later lost a lot of body mass which they built up quickly again as refugees (with not the best food). I`m not sure there is a special effect from the Holocaust per se. Non-Jewish POWs captured by the Japanese and the Nazis also came out of camps looking like skeletons, while some Jewish road crews ate better. The bottom line is war is a hell that persists. |
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