Dr. Robert Krell, MD

Dr. Robert Krell. A Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is a child survivor of the Holocaust, and has devoted his life to the treatment of holocaust survivors and their families. Dr. Krell was born in The Hague, Holland on 5 August 1940. He survived the war hiding with the Munnik family and returned to his parents, who had also survived in hiding.

In 1951, the Krells moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and Dr. Krell earned his medical degree from The University of British Columbia in 1965 and completed his psychiatric training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and also Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

In his private practice, Dr. Krell treated Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as Dutch survivors of Japanese concentration camps.