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{en} Azriel Eisenberg, ed. The Lost Generation: Children in the Holocaust. New York : Pilgrim Press, 1982.

Abstract

"Collects firsthand accounts of the Nazi persecution of Jewish children during World War II and the efforts of the members of the organization, Youth Aliyah, to rescue these children ... Explores the wide range of experiences suffered by children during the Holocaust, including their lives in the Nazi ghettos and concentration camps, as well as years spent hiding in the forests ... Passing as Aryans, or living under the protection of righteous gentiles. chapters 6 and 7 explore children's diaries, including Anne Frank's, and written testimonies by children."--Publisher description.

Contents

Prelude to doom -- Raising a generation of Jew-haters -- "Heil Hitler!" 50 to 150 times a day / Erika Mann -- Skepticism and participation / Ilse McKee -- Neighbors / Melita Meschmann -- Babi Yar / Anatoly Kuznetsoi -- The Kristallnacht riots and pogroms / Rita Thalmann and Emmanuel Feindermann -- Jewish children's exodus -- Flights to England / Karen Gershon -- Castles of refuge in France / Ernst Papnek with Edward Linn -- First Youth Aliyah Group in Berlin / Recha Freir -- Henrietta Szold welcomes First Youth Aliyah Group / Zena Harman -- Exiled children part from their doomed parents at Camp Gurs, France, 1941 / Isaac Chomsky -- Extirpating the unborn generation -- A cruel hoax: mixed marriages and sterilization / Philip Mechanicus -- Babies and pregnant mothers killed / Olga Lengiel -- The fate of Jeanette's twins / Giselle Perl -- Leo Baeck prevents an abortion / Leonard Baker -- Children in the Nazi ghetto / A memorial to a three-year-old girl / Eliezer Yerushalmi -- Families in the bunkers / Aharon Peretz -- Live game / Moshe Prager -- "We will not hand over the children alive" / Fredka Mazia -- Spiritual resistance -- School life in the Vilna Ghetto / Mark Dvorjecki -- An underground Yeshiva in Warsaw / Hillel Seidman -- Clandestine high school in the Warsaw Ghetto / Nathan Eckron -- Self-aid in the ghetto ; This is Jewish revenge / Chaim A. Kaplan -- A concert in Korczaks's orphanage / Michael Zylberberg -- Kiddush ha-Shem by son and father / Eliezer Unger -- The circumcision / Ephraim Oshry -- In the cemetery new life is born / Eliezer Yerushalmi -- Children's diaries -- Anne Frank looks back at her past -- Diary of Moshe Flinker: thoughts of my people never leave my mind -- Yitzhak Rudashevsky records aspects of life in the Vilna Ghetto -- Excerpts from the diary of David Rubinovicz: the rural scene -- Eva Heyman's diary: the disintegration of her family -- Extracts from Tamarah Lazerson's diary: discovering Zionism and Judaism -- Excerpts from Janina Heshele's diary of Lvov -- "What happened to me": children's stories -- A survivor of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto / Haviva Dembinska -- "I must live for my mom and dad" / Edmund Lubianker -- A boy survives the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto / Melech Neishtadt, editor -- Five years of bitter exile and wanderings through Siberia and African jungles to Eretz Yisrael ; "Hear, O Israel" ; "Written down for the sake of history" / Bracha Habas -- Hiding in a bunker, passing as an Aryan: Manya's unforgettable story / Lena Kichler -- Camps -- Deportation and detention -- Deportation of Jewish children from Paris to Drancy / Claude Levy and Paul Tillard -- What happened to four thousand French Jewish children / George Wellers -- Janusz Korczak marches to death with his children / Adolf Berman, Yehoshua Perl, and Nahum Remba -- Concentration and death -- Reception at Auschwitz / Kitty Hart -- Child hell in Auschwitz / Philip Friedman -- The gas chamber: testimony of Mr. Lieberman -- A deed of savagery: SS drives boys into the gas chambers / Leib Langfuss -- Dr. Mengele's inhuman experiments / Miklos Nyiszli -- An incomparable atrocity: story of a Piepel / Mordecai Shtrigler -- Changing "Piepels" / K. Zetnick -- Obliteration of the corpses by the death brigade / Leon Welles -- Children's identifications of names written in blood ; Giving birth in Auschwitz / Giselle Perl -- Halina never lost hope / Halina Birenbaum -- Budee: the camp the world forgot / Bess Freilich -- The killer squads -- The kill / Donia Rosen -- Portrait of a Nazi killer of children / Michael A. Mussmano -- Passing as Aryans -- Phimosis is no circumcision / Joseph Joffo. Margo bleaches her hair blond / Margo Mineo -- An old Christian woman hides a friend / Donia Rosen -- Winter in the forest / Feiga Kammer -- "If only I could be a little bug!" / Jack Kuper -- Physical resistance and vitality -- A boy grows up in Auschwitz / Yisrael Gutman -- Determined to live / Zvi Goldberg -- Sonderkommando in Birkenau / Shaye Gertner -- Blowing the Shofar at Auschwitz / Zvi Hirsch Meislish -- A sequence of horrors / Isaiah Trunk -- Excerpts from the book Hiyuniyut Yehudit Bashoah ("Jewish vitality in the Holocaust") -- Family camps in the forest -- Motele, an exemplar of the Child Partisan Movement / Yuri Suhl -- David, a Partisan from the editor's hometown / Jacob Pat -- The ten-year-old Partisan / Hananiah Kuton -- Dr. Atlas's forest Partisans / Shmuel Bernstein -- An eleven-year-old fighter / Sh. Niger -- Children couriers in the ghetto of Minsk / Yuri Suhl -- Smuggling out arms / Yitzhak Arad -- The vow and the charge / Lena Kichler-Zilberman -- Rescuers, saviors and righteous Gentiles -- On rescuing children / Emmanuel Ringelblum -- Rescuing children in soup pots / Nathan Shapell -- How the French saved Jewish children / Victor E. Bienstock -- The little Dane: blessed "mother" of forty children / Aryah Bauminger -- The affair of the Finaly children / Nicolas Baudy -- A gift of life from German mothers / Rachel Mintz -- The Teheran children -- A collective account / Meir Ohad [and others] -- The babies who wouldn't cry / Asher Lazar -- Palestine -- Memorandum to the Italian foreign ministers from the Jerusalem Mufti / Amin El Husseini -- A near catastrophe / Moshe Weiszand -- Rescued at Haifa Port / Bracha Habas -- Tel Aviv children's battle the British / Meyer Levin -- The mute / Asher Lazar -- Liberation -- "Mama, may I cry now?" / Abba Kovner -- The march / Helen Lazarus -- First free baby born at Belsen / Giselle Perl -- The children of Belsen / Hadassah Bimko-Rosensaft -- Liberated! / Moshe Avital -- "We shall not set foot on Germany's cursed soil" / Lena Kichler-Zilberman -- "Thank you for our tears" / Rachel Mintz -- A reversal of roles -- Sweden welcomes the children / Chava Kwinta -- The postcard that saved a life / Moshe Ishai -- A mother and her daughters are reunited / Berta Salz -- Stranger than fiction / Ephraim Dekel -- Rehabilitation -- A modern-day Elijah / Leah Tzari -- Ditta Cohen: a story with a dramatic happy ending -- The cross / Nusiah Orlowitz Reznick -- The miracle: education in Belsen / M. Lubliner -- The two schools in postwar Lodz / Jacob Pat -- A Jewish brigade and the children / Helen Waren -- Soldiers establish a Hebrew school -- The trauma afterward -- Painful inheritance / Helen Epstein -- Adoption or foster home care? / Shneur Z. Hissin -- Epilogue -- Rewriting history: the case of Anne Frank / Simon Wiesenthal and Joseph Wechsberg.

About the Author

Azriel Eisenberg (USA, 1903-1985) -- The child of Jewish immigrants, Eisenberg devoted his entire life to the cause of Jewish education. His interests led him to revisit the experience of children during the Holocaust. After the anthologies of the 1940s, his book was the first collection of children's accounts of the Holocaust.