Overview

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.

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Author:   Sharon Kangisser Cohen ,  Eva Fogelman ,  Dalia Ofer
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781785334382

ISBN 10:   1785334387
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman and Dalia Ofer PART I: METHODOLOGY Chapter 1. Age, Circumstance, and Outcome in Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Considerations of the Literature and a Report of a Study Using Narrative Content Analysis Gila Sandler Saban, K. Mark Sossin, and Anastasia Yasik PART II: IMMEDIATE POSTWAR PERIOD Chapter 2. A Child's View: Children's Depositions of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Poland) Sharon Kangisser Cohen Chapter 3. Starting Over: Reconstituted Families after the Holocaust Beth B. Cohen Chapter 4. Both Valuable and Difficult : A Meeting Point between Historical and Psychological Interviews Rita Horvath and Katalin Zana PART III: POST WAR MEMORY, COPING MECHANISMS, AND ADJUSTMENT Chapter 5. Performative Memory-Making and the Future of the Kestenberg Archive Stephenie Young Chapter 6. Shadows of Memory and Intergenerational Legacies in Child Survivors' Testimonies from the Kestenberg Archive Dana Mihailescu Chapter 7. Symbolic Revenge in Holocaust Child Survivors Nancy Isserman Chapter 8. Resilience in Child Survivors: History and Application of Coding of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children Helene Bass-Wichelhaus PART IV: NON-JEWISH VICTIMS OF WAR AND NAZISM Chapter 9. They Were Jews, but They Were Very Kind People : Polish Language Testimonies in the Kestenberg Child Survivor Archive Katarzyna Person Chapter 10. War Children in Nazi Germany and World War II Ilka Quindeau, Katrin Einert, and Nadine Teuber Chapter 11. Insights into the German Interviews of the Kestenberg Archive: Children of Perpetrators and How They Dealt with Their Parents' Actions Christina Isabel Bru ning PART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Chapter 12. Always Moving Forward Andrew Griffel Index

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This volume is not only timely and welcome, but it will help define a field of inquiry. For scholars and students looking to explore the considerable resources of Holocaust testimonies, this is a valuable resource. . Francoise Ouzan, Tel Aviv University

This volume is not only timely and welcome, but it will help define a field of inquiry. For scholars and students looking to explore the considerable resources of Holocaust testimonies, this is a valuable resource. . Francoise Ouzan, Tel Aviv University

Author Information

Sharon Kangisser Cohen is the Director of the Director of the Diane and Eli Zborowski Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath and the Deportation Project at the The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. She is, in addition, a lecturer at Haifa University and the Rothberg School for international students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent book, Testimony and Time: Survivors of the Holocaust Remember, was published in 2015 by Yad Vashem.

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