Yehuda Nir (March 31, 1930 – July 19, 2014) was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood.
Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during World War II.
Nir's ordeal led him to a career as a psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and severely ill children.
[2] He also published four self-help books focusing on relationships, including Not Quite Paradise: Making Marriage Work and Loving Men for All the Right Reasons.
[1] His funeral was held at Riverside Memorial Chapel on the Upper West Side, with burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.