NILY NAIMAN

Nily Naiman was born in Israel in December of 1953. She was the elder of two sisters in a hard working family that had arrived there after the defeat of the Third Reich. Nily grew up in a time of constant war and political and cultural upheaval in a narrow-minded society of Holocaust survivors and new Jewish immigrants who had come from all over the world.

She struggled throughout her childhood for her independence and freedom of thought and speech in a very judgmental and rule-set environment. On the background of the many conflicts within the Jewish community, the horrors of the Holocaust, and Arab-Israeli conflict, Nily has been seeking to portray the common, fundamental elements of humanity and the soul, good and evil, war and peace, love and hate, and trauma.

Her novels are fascinating journeys of women and their families searching for indentity while enduring desperate and painful times. The women in her books are larger than life, and their stories are all based on true events and on the life of the author. Naiman is dealing with emotional problems which have scarred these women very deeply.

Culture and personal history aside, these are women who have the ability to cope and the strength that makes it possible to face their problems and their pain. Naiman intertwines tragedy with irony and romance in an impressive way. All the women in her books are on the verge of destruction and disaster. The situations of despair, embarrassment, and pain that she creates have a deep emotional quality. The personal and subjective foundations control the plot. The heroines of her novels seem to bear the weight ot the entire world on their shoulders.

Naiman’s aim is not really to understand the circumstances and social situations, so much as it is to understand the characters’ emotional world, their personal thoughts and feelings. The lyrical effect is very clear in all the books. All her stories include her autobiographical events and personal experiences that are presented to artistic perfection. All the women that Naiman deals with are living within a cruel reality and a dark period of history. They try to preserve whatever human dignity they have.

Do not expect any great social messages or bombastic prophecies. Her books are all a salute to human love that is greater than hatred or death.

Nily Naiman has published four books:

Ahuvah (Beloved), by PublishAmerica

Mongolia, by Chipmunka Publishing, London UK

Tambourine, by Chipmunka Publishing, London UK

Songs and Poems for Andres, by Chipmunka Publishing, London UK

The books can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and at the publishing house websites.

coming books- Theresin Six, Amalya
NIly Naimanis working on the book “Amalya”

She is working on Terezin Six with her son Boaz Naiman. Based upon true events, it is a story of six prisoner artists in the Thereisenstadt concentration camp during World War II and their struggle to survive through their art.

All of Nily Naiman’s books are dealing with post-traumatic silence, A thank you goes out to Mr. Jason Pegler -London UK, and the World Mental Health Organization for helping me bring this painful illness to the attention of the world.
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POST TRAUMA SILENCE

By Nily Naiman

“MONGOLIA”

Post-traumatic stress in adults and children can express itself in a variety of ways. One of these is withdrawal from social interaction, and one of the most effective means of withdrawal is self-imposed silence, or muteness. In such cases the traumatized individual, by becoming and remaining mute, creates a permanent safety bubble of sorts that allows necessary and unavoidable interactions with others to continue, while cutting off the threat of having to establish the degree of communication that might require having to relive or having to reveal to another person the pain, horror, or profound humiliation of the traumatic incident. .

In her new novel, Mongolia, author Nily Naiman examines the phenomenon of post-traumatic silence in depth through the main character, Lana, who first suffers muteness as a young teenager because of irrational guilt feelings over the suicide death of her sister, and later experiences it again after the death of her first husband in a tragic accident. Lana’s grown daughter, Bayar, similarly escapes into the false safety of muteness after being brutally raped. In both instances with Lana, as well as in the case of Bayar, the ongoing support of family and friends is not sufficient to break them out of the syndrome. It is an eventual shock of another kind that ultimately brings them back into full communication with those around them. Through Mongolia Naiman brings to the world’s attention this little-known pattern of behavioral retreat from which the author herself has suffered.

Individuals who have suffered from post-traumatic silence are invited to submit their testimonies and comments to nilynaiman@hotmail.com and to chipmunkapublishing.com to help the author bring the world to an awareness of this disease.

The book is now for sale at chipmunkapublishing.com, barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, and all internet booksellers.
Post-traumatic stress in adults and children can express itself in a variety of ways. One of these is withdrawal from social interaction, and one of the most effective means of withdrawal is self-imposed silence, or muteness. In such cases the traumatized individual, by becoming and remaining mute, creates a permanent safety bubble of sorts that allows necessary and unavoidable interactions with others to continue, while cutting off the threat of having to establish the degree of communication that might require having to relive or having to reveal to another person the pain, horror, or profound humiliation of the traumatic incident.

"TAMBOURINE"

In the novel Tambourine, author Nily Naiman brings this syndrome to the world’s attention through her portrayal of a nine-year-old Gypsy girl, Gisele, who is raped by a Nazi soldier when a group of them raid her family’s encampment in war-time France. Gisele slowly recovers from the shock of the incident, and eventually communicates with the adults through sign language; but she holds on to the muteness as a safe retreat, a sure place where she will not have to speak of what she went through. Ultimately, it is the later brutal murder of her brother and others in her family by the Nazis that breaks her out of the bond of silence in which she has enveloped herself.

Individuals who have suffered from post-traumatic silence are invited to submit their testimonies and comments to nilynaiman@hotmail.com and to chipmunkapublishing.com to help the author bring the world to an awareness of this disease from which the author herself has suffered.

The book can be purchased at chipmunkapublishing.com, barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, and other internet booksellers.

Nily Naiman’s books are must reads!!they can be orderd on all books sales sites AMazon.com,barnse and nobels,Publishamerica.com,chipmunkapublishing.com, bourdnbooks, booksfind,etc.
To the Japanese Goverment This is a letter of protest on behalf of the Asian women who were forced to serve the Japanese army as prostitutes, “comfort women”, during the Second World War. Some 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries in the Pacific were forced to suffer at the hands of the Japanese under conditions that rivaled the worst of the atrocities of the German Nazis. In the interests of justice and simple decency, I demand that the government of Japan publicly admit its country’s crimes against these women and offer apologies to them and to the world. In some countries such as Korea it is mistakenly believed that the comfort women were willing collaborators. This is a lie that has in part been fed by misinformation from the Japanese government itself. As a result the surviving women and their families are afraid to come forward publicly because they know that they might be shamed and ostracized by their fellow countrymen. The government of Japan has a moral obligation to make clear to the world that the comfort women were not collaborators, but were victims who were forced into prostitution under threat of death. I have seen photographs taken by Japanese soldiers themselves of the girls whom they brutalized who were too young to have willingly collaborated in their own humiliation. The older women in the photographs have clearly been raped and tortured. It is also high time that the government of Japan seeks out the families of the comfort women, as well as the few remaining survivors themselves, and offer direct apologies to them as well as appropriate compensation, Sincerely Nily Naiman

Nily Naiman, Post trauma silence,mongolia,Tambourine,songs and poems for Andres,Nily Naiman
This is a letter of protest on behalf of the Asian women who were forced to serve the Japanese army as prostitutes, “comfort women”, during the Second World War. Some 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries in the Pacific were forced to suffer at the hands of the Japanese under conditions that rivaled the worst of the atrocities of the German Nazis. In the interests of justice and simple decency, I demand that the government of Japan publicly admit its country’s crimes against these women and offer apologies to them and to the world. In some countries such as Korea it is mistakenly believed that the comfort women were willing collaborators. This is a lie that has in part been fed by misinformation from the Japanese government itself. As a result the surviving women and their families are afraid to come forward publicly because they know that they might be shamed and ostracized by their fellow countrymen. The government of Japan has a moral obligation to make clear to the world that the comfort women were not collaborators, but were victims who were forced into prostitution under threat of death. I have seen photographs taken by Japanese soldiers themselves of the girls whom they brutalized who were too young to have willingly collaborated in their own humiliation. The older women in the photographs have clearly been raped and tortured. It is also high time that the government of Japan seek out the families of the comfort women, as well as the few remaining survivors themselves, and offer direct apologies to them as well as appropriate compensation. My novel, Silent Marionette, a Story of a Comfort Lady, is based upon true events in the life of a Korean teenage girl who was kidnapped by the Japanese and forced to serve them as a comfort woman in Manchuria. It is not yet published, but is in the hands of a literary agent, Ger Nichols, with The Book Bureau in Ireland. When it is published I recommend that it be made part of the curriculum in Japanese high schools and universities. This generation of Japanese must be aware of the sins of the past so as not to repeat them in the future.This letter is an open invitation to anyone who was a victim of the Japanese, or who knows of victims of the Japanese, or anyone else who cares about the tragedy of the comfort women to send me their testimonies and any comments they might have at nilynaiman@hotmail.com, and I will forward them along with my own letter to the Japanese government.”