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Title

1st French ed. (1984)

The Children of Buchenwald : Child Survivors and Their Post-War Lives, English rev. ed. by Judith Hemmendinger and Robert Krell (Jerusalem ; Hewlett, NY. : Gefen House, 2000).

• English rev. ed. of Judith Hemmendinger, Les enfants de Buchenwald: que sont devenus les 1000 enfants juifs sauvés en 1945? (Lausanne, Suisse : P.-M. Favre, 1984).

• Also translated into German.

Abstract

Some of the 426 child survivors of Buchenwald tell their stories, from their lives in the camp, their liberation, and their struggle for normalcy and emotional well-being.

Contents

From Auschwitz to Liberation -- Arrival in France -- The children at Ambloy -- Lulek's story -- Romek's story -- Taverny -- Destinations- leaving Taverny -- Life journeys- 20 years later in New York -- Life journeys- France -- Life journeys- Israel -- Elie Wiesel -- Observations and conclusions.

About the Authors

Judith Hemmendinger (b.1923) is a German-born Israeli researcher and author specializing in child survivors of the Holocaust. During World War II she was a social worker and refugee counselor for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), a French Jewish children's aid organization based in Geneva, and from 1945 to 1947 directed a home for child survivors of Buchenwald in France. She has authored books and papers on the Holocaust experiences and later lives of child survivors. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2003.

Robert Krell (b.1940) was born in Holland and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The Krell family moved to Vancouver, Canada where he obtained an MD from the University of British Columbia and eventually became professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. His many articles on the Holocaust have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa, among other publications.