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{en} Simone Gigliotti - Monica Tempian, eds. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement (London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).

Abstract

"During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second World War and aspects of memory. This book is unique in that it places the experiences of children and youth in a transnational context, shifting the conversation of displacement and refuge to countries that have remained under-examined in a comparative context ... Featuring essays from an international range of experts, this book analyses the key themes in three sections: the migration of children to countries including England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, and Brazil; the experiences of young people who remained in Nazi Europe and became victims of war, displacement and deportation; and finally the challenges of rebuilding lives and representing traumas in the aftermath of war. In its comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish experiences and how these intersected and diverged, it revisits debates about cultural genocide through the separation of families and communities, as well as contributing new perspectives on forced labour, families and the Holocaust, and Germans as war victims."--Publisher description.

Content

Part One. Migration: Departures to New Homelands: Adaptation and Belonging in Refugee Countries: 1. Jewish refugee children in the USA (1934-45): Flight, resettlement, absorption / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz; 2. "Detour to Canada": The fate of juvenile Austrian-Jewish refugees after the "Anschluss" 1938 / Andrea Strutz; 3. "This tear remains forever ... ": German-Jewish refugee children and youth in Brazil (1933-45): Resettlement, acculturation, integration / Marlen Eckl; 4. A distant sanctuary: Australia and child Holocaust survivors / Suzanne D. Rutland; 5. "The children are a triumph": New Zealand's response to Europe's children and youth, 1933-49 / Ann Beaglehole; 6. . "No common mother tongue or fatherland": Jewish refugee children in British Kenya / Jennifer Reeve -- Part Two. The Holocaust: Ghetto and Camp Battlegrounds: Imprisonment, Activism and Forced Labour: 7. Polish and Soviet child forced labourers in National Socialist German-occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-45 / Johannes-Dieter Steinert; 8. The force relocation of the Krakow Ghetto as remembered by child survivors / Joanna Sviwa; 9. The fate of children in Majdanek Concentration Camp / Marta Grudzinska; 10. Children and youth in Auschwitz: Experiences of life and labour / Gideon Greif; 11. The legend of the ghetto fighters: Zionist youth movements and resistance during and after the Holocaust / Avinoam J. Patt -- Part Three. Postwar Displacement: War Childhoods in an Unforgiving World: Memory, Rehabilitation and Silence: 12. The Kinder's children: Second generation and the Kindertransport / Andrea Hammel; 13. Remembering the "pain of belonging": Jewish children hidden as Catholics in Second World War France / Mary Fraser Kirsh; 14. Unaccompanied children and the Allied Child Search: "The right ... a child has to his own heritage" / Susanne Urban; 15. Children of Lidice: searches, shadows and histories / J.E. Smyth; 16. Europe's children across the borders of memory / Roger Hillman.

About the Author

Simone Gigliotti is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies.

Monica Tempian is a Senior Lecturer in German.