ISBN:
9781978819542
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (286 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Keywords:
Holocaust survivors Biography
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Holocaust victims' families History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Biography
;
Jewish families History 20th century
;
Romanies Nazi persecution
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War and families
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World War, 1939-1945 Influence
;
HISTORY / General
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Why the Family? -- PART I Family in Times of Genocide -- Chapter 1 The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust: -- Chapter 2 Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos -- Chapter 3 Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: -- Chapter 4 Uneasy Bonds: -- PART II Intervention of Institutions -- Chapter 5 Siblings in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath in France and the United States: -- Chapter 6 The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–1949 -- Chapter 7 “For Your Benefit”: -- PART III Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust -- Chapter 8 “Return to Normality?”: -- Chapter 9 “I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father”: -- Chapter 10 “Looking for a Nice Jewish Girl . . .”: -- Chapter 11 The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Abstract:
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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978819542
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