In a long career as a psychoanalyst, Anna Ornstein, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 17 and experienced unspeakable horror in her youth, embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy — a belief that all people, even those who seem the most vile, contain a spark of humanity. Dr. Ornstein died on July 2 at her home in Brookline, MA. She was 98.

She and her husband, also a Holocaust survivor, emigrated to the United States in 1950. She taught child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, at Harvard Medical School, and at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She also spoke about the Holocaust to young people and community groups.