And Life is Changed Forever - Holocaust Childhoods Remembered (Hardcover)

This distinctive volume contains twenty first-person narrative essays from Holocaust survivors who were children at the time of the atrocity. As children aged two to sixteen, these authors had different experiences than their adult counterparts and also had different outlooks in understanding the events that they survived. While most Holocaust memoirs focus on one individual or one country, ""And Life Is Changed Forever"" offers a varied collection of compelling reflections. The survivors come from Germany, Poland, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Latvia, and Czechoslovakia. All of the contributors escaped death, but they did so in myriad ways. Some children posed as Gentiles or were hidden by sympathizers, some went to concentration camps and survived slave labor, some escaped on the Kindertransports, and some were sent to endure hardships in a ""safe"" location such as Siberia or unoccupied France. While each essay is intensely personal, all speak to the universal horrors and the triumphs of all children who have survived persecution. ""And Life Is Changed Forever"" also focuses on what these children became - teachers, engineers, physicians, entrepreneurs, librarians, parents, and grandparents - and explores the impact of the Holocaust on their later lives.

General

Imprint:	Wayne State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Landscapes of Childhood
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	April 2006
Editors:	Martin Ira Glassner • Robert Krell
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-8143-3173-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival Books > Fiction > True stories > War / combat / elite forces > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	0-8143-3173-4
Barcode:	9780814331736

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