Male Holocaust Survivors May Live Longer Than Prewar Jewish
Emigrants  FRIDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Male Holocaust
survivors from Poland have a longer life expectancy than Jewish
men in the same age group who left Poland before the start of
World War II, a new study finds.  Researchers analyzed data from
more than 55,000 Jewish men and women who were aged 4 to 20 in
1939. They compared those who immigrated from Poland to Israel
between 1945 and 1950 and those who did so before the war
started in 1939.  Overall, life expectancy was 6.5 months longer
among those who survived the Holocaust than among those who left
Poland before the war. However, further analysis revealed little
difference between women in the two groups. The difference in
men was significant, with Holocaust survivors living an average
of 14 months longer.  The older the surviving men were at the
time of the Holocausts, the bigger the difference between them
and those who left Poland before the war, according to the study
recently publishe