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The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as
children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for
researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood
experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their
own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives,
requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians,
psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors'
accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child
Survivor Archive's over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our
understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the
methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this
unique form of historical record.
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as
children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for
researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood
experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their
own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives,
requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians,
psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors'
accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child
Survivor Archive's over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our
understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the
methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this
unique form of historical record.
Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the
Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the
nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different
countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology,
demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this
collection explores the survivors' return to everyday life and how
their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted
their process of integration into various European countries, the
United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a
rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.
Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at
least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the
Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded
within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described
their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on
family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses.
 In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and
across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to
their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family
perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and
examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the
importance of recognizing how people continued to function within
family units—broadly defined—throughout the war and afterward.
Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of
the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in
the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews
from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of
restrictive British immigration policies was partly an undertaking
of national rescue and partly a calculated strategy of political
brinksmanship. In this compelling analysis, Ofer examines various
illegal immigration and rescue efforts organized by the Palestinian
Jewish community in both the beginning and latter phases of the
war. Making exhaustive use of archival sources, Ofer provides
invaluable insight into the struggles of the immigrants, the
activists and supporters of the movement, the logistical obstacles,
and the political forces working to halt or exploit the flow of
refugees.
As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish
women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and
had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original
scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. By examining women's
unique responses, their incredible resourcefulness, their courage,
and their suffering, the book enhances our understanding of the
experiences of all Jews during the Nazi era. The introductory essay
by Lenore Weitzman and Dalia Ofer stakes out new intellectual
territory and shows how questions about gender lead to a richer and
more finely nuanced understanding of the Holocaust. Testimonies of
Holocaust survivors, written especially for this book, shed light
on women's lives in the ghettos, the Jewish resistance movement,
and the concentration camps. The narratives personalize and
exemplify many of the larger themes explored in other chapters by
Holocaust historians, sociologists, and literary experts. These
chapters explore the variety and complexity of gender differences
during the Holocaust. The culturally defined prewar roles of Jewish
men and women endowed them with different spheres of knowledge,
expertise, and skills with which to face the Nazi onslaught. During
the war the Nazis imposed different regulations, work requirements,
and sanctions on the two sexes. Women had to assume new roles as
family protectors during the ghetto period, when men were more
vulnerable. In contrast women, and especially mothers, were more
vulnerable in the concentration camps. The detailed portraits of
women in these chapters show us their individuality, strength, and
humanity. Contributors to this volume: Gershon Bacon Yehuda Bauer
Daniel Blatman Gisela Bock Ruth Bondy Liza Chapnik Ida Fink Myrna
Goldenberg Sara R. Horowitz Paula E. Hyman Marion Kaplan Felicja
Karay Bronka Klibansk Lawrence L. Langer Dalia Ofer Renee Poznanski
Joan Ringelheim Nechama Tec Michal Unger Lidia Rosenfeld Vago
Lenore J. Weitzman
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