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Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust—named a best history book of 2020 by the Daily Telegraph "Impressive, beautifully written, judicious and thoughtful. . . . Will be a major milestone in the history of the Holocaust and its legacy."—Mark Roseman, author of The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully wr...
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide. They gathered documents on Nazi persecution and structured them in specialized collections to provide information on individual fates and their grave repercussions: the loss of relatives, the search for a new home, physical or mental injuries, existential problems, social support and recognition, but also continued exclusion or ...
This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including ‘displaced persons’, reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials and justice, reparation and restitution, and memory and testimony. The chapters highlight new, transnational approaches and findings based on underused and newly opened archives, including compensation files of the British government; on historical actors often on the periphery within English-language historiography, including Romanian and Hungarian survivors; and new approaches such as the spatial history of Drancy, as well as geographies that have undergone less scrutiny, for example, Tehran, Chile, Mexico and Cyprus. This volume represents the vibrant and varied state of research on the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around the world which led millions of people and families to flee from wars, terror, poverty and exploitation. Minors have been denied human rights such as access to education, food and health services. They have been kidnapped, sold, manipulated, mutilated, killed, and injured. This has been and continues to be the case in both developed and developing countries, and it does not look as if the situation will improve in the near future. Rather, current geopolitical developments, political and economic uncertainties and instabilities seem to be increasing...
The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the “XX. Century Conference: If This Is A Woman” at Comenius University Bratislava in January 2019. The conference was organized against anti-gender narratives and related attacks on academic freedom and women’s rights currently all too prevalent in East-Central Europe. The papers presented at the conference and in this volume focus, to a significant extent, on this region. They touch upon numerous points concerning gendered experiences of World War II and the Holocaust. By purposely emphasizing the female experience in the title, we encourage to fill the lacunae that still, four decades after the enrichment of Holocaust studies with a gendered lens, exist when it comes to female experiences.
Kinder als Überlebende der NS-Verfolgung und als Displaced Persons nach 1945. Im Mittelpunkt des Jahrbuchs 2017 des International Tracing Service stehen Kinder und Heranwachsende als Displaced Persons (DPs). Der Band bietet Einblicke in individuelle und gesellschaftliche Nachwirkungen des Holocaust und der NS-Zwangsarbeit sowie in die Strukturen und Praktiken alliierter Hilfsorganisationen nach 1945. Zudem werden Ansätze für die historisch-politische Bildungsarbeit zu DPs vorgestellt. Angesichts der aktuellen Migrationsbewegung und der großen Zahl unbegleiteter minderjähriger Flüchtlinge gewinnt die Auseinandersetzung mit den sozialen und politischen Herausforderungen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs auch für die Gegenwart neue Relevanz. Die Beiträge dokumentieren eine internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung, die vom 30. Mai bis 1. Juni 2016 im Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum in Dachau stattfand.
An original insight into how occupation officials and relief workers controlled and cared for Displaced Persons in the French zone.
Im Fokus des Bandes stehen Forschungsergebnisse, die auf der Grundlage der Dokumente des ITS-Archivs entstanden sind. Seit Öffnung des Archivs 2007 konnten mithilfe der ITS-Sammlungen für viele Aspekte, wie z. B. Holocaust-Forschung, Zwangsarbeit oder Genderfragen, neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen werden. Der Hauptteil basiert auf Vorträgen, die im Mai 2014 bei einer gemeinsam mit dem ITS veranstalteten Konferenz im United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., gehalten wurden.
National Jewish Book Award Finalist · Jewish Fiction Award Honor Book "This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet." ―Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist "Rosner is one of my favorite authors." ―Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Eternal From the award-winning author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. When your past is stolen, where do you belong? Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into ...
Tom Lantos was a Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman remembered for raising awareness and respect for human rights around the world. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980 becoming the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress. In 1983 he co-founded and chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus renamed in his honour as the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. With articles authored by leading academics this Festschrift remembers Tom Lantos’s extensive human rights activism on the human rights themes he was passionately involved with around the world. The essays offer new insights on a range of topical human rights issues, such as human rights education, religious freedom, post-conflict justice, minority rights and identity politics.