Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath : : Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive / / ed. by Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman, Dalia Ofer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Bass-Wichelhaus, Helene,; Brüning, Christina Isabel,; Cohen, Beth B.,; Cohen, Sharon Kangisser,; Einert, Katrin,; Fogelman, Eva,; Griffel, Andrew,; Horváth, Rita,; Isserman, Nancy,; Mihăilescu, Dana,; Ofer, Dalia,; Person, Katarzyna,; Quindeau, Ilka,; Saban, Gila Sandler,; Sossin, K. Mark,; Teuber, Nadine,; Yasik, Anastasia,; Young, Stephenie,; Zana, Katalin,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Sharon Kangisser,; Fogelman, Eva,; Ofer, Dalia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Methodology -- 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 -- PART TWO Immediate Postwar Period -- 2 A Child’s View: Children’s Depositions of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Poland) -- 3 Starting Over Reconstituted Families after the Holocaust -- 4 “Both Valuable and Difficult” A Meeting Point between Historical and Psychological Interviews -- PART THREE Postwar Memory, Coping Mechanisms, and Adjustment -- 5 Performative Memory-Making and the Future of the Kestenberg Archive -- 6 Shadows of Memory and Intergenerational Legacies in Child Survivors’ Testimonies from the Kestenberg Archive -- 7 Symbolic Revenge in Holocaust Child Survivors -- 8 Resilience in Child Survivors: History and Application of Coding of the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children -- PART FOUR Non-Jewish Victims of War and Nazism -- 9 “They Were Jews, but They Were Very Kind People” Polish Language Testimonies in the Kestenberg Archive -- 10 War Children in Nazi Germany and World War II -- 11 Insights into the German Interviews of the Kestenberg Archive: Children of Perpetrators and How They Dealt with Their Parents’ Actions -- PART FIVE Personal Reflections -- 12 Always Moving Forward -- Index