Children of the Holocaust

Author: Helen Epstein
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140112847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Child of the Holocaust

Author: Jack Kuper
Publisher: Robson Books
ISBN: 9781849543842
Category : Holocaust survivors
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Jack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language and abandon his religion in order to survive.

Daniel's Story

Author: Carol Matas
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590465885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Forever Alert

Author: Philipp Sonntag
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783936103755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Survivors

Author: Rebecca Clifford
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust 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 written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age. Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them—as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children—often branded “the lucky ones”—had to struggle to be able to call themselves “survivors” at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford’s powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss.

Children during the Holocaust

Author: Patricia Heberer
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557

Book Description
Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims. The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis and their sympathizers and the impact these measures had on Jewish children and adolescents—from the years leading to the war, to the roundups, deportations, and emigrations, to hidden life and death in the ghettos and concentration camps, and to liberation and coping in the wake of war. This volume examines the reactions of children to discrimination, the loss of livelihood in Jewish homes, and the public humiliation at the hands of fellow citizens and explores the ways in which children's experiences paralleled and diverged from their adult counterparts. Additional chapters reflect upon the role of non-Jewish children as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders during World War II. Offering a collection of personal letters, diaries, court testimonies, government documents, military reports, speeches, newspapers, photographs, and artwork, Children during the Holocaust highlights the diversity of children's experiences during the nightmare years of the Holocaust.

Children of the Holocaust

Author: Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756544424
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Presents stories of children that through a combination of strength, cleverness, the help of others, and more often than not, simple good luck, survived Adolf Hitler's reign of terror, known as the Holocaust.

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Author: Paul Valent
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113533059X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
At the end of the Second World War approximately 1.5 million Jewish children had been killed by the Nazis. In this book, ten child survivors tell their stories. Paul Valent, himself a child survivor and psychiatrist, explores with profound analytical insight the deepest memories of those survivors he interviewed. Their experiences range from living in hiding to physical and sexual abuse. Child Survivors of the Holocaust preserves and integrates the personal narratives and the therapist's perspective in an amazing chronicle. The stories in this book contribute to questions concerning the roots of morality, memory, resilience, and specifc scientific queries of the origins of psychosomatic symptoms, psychiatric illness, and trans-generational transmission of trauma. Child Survivors of the Holocaust speaks to the trauma facing contemporary child victims of abuse worldwide through past narratives of the Holocaust.

Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust

Author: Loic Dauvillier
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.

Your Name Is Renée

Author: Stacy Cretzmeyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. "Remember," her older cousin Jeannette warns her, "your name is Renee and you are French!" A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect them. Eventually the family is forced to separate, and young Ruth survives the war in an orphanage where she is not allowed to see or even mention her parents. Without the trappings of lofty language or the faceless perspective of history, this first-person account poignantly recreates the terror of war seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Your Name Is Renee is a tale of suffering and redemption, fear and hope, which is bound to stir even the most hardened heart.