Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children : : Genocide and Displacement / / Frank Jacob.

• Funder: Nord University
• VerfasserIn: Jacob, Frank,
• Author: Nord University
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 167 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Ernst Papanek was an Austrian pedagogue who worked with Jewish refugee children in France in 1939/40, before he was forced to leave to the United States. There, he nevertheless continued his work to point out the impact of war, genocide and displacement on children, who were often forgotten in major discussions about the war and the losses it had created. This volume provides a short biographical outline of Papanek and a theoretical discussion about the impact of war and genocide on children who are forced out of their lives and who were not only physically displaced as a consequence. The second part of the book assembles some of Papanek's important texts about the children he had worked with and for, to make his thoughts and important considerations accessible for a broader academic and non-academic public alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: The Man and the Context -- 1 Introduction -- 2 War and Displacement: Children as Victims of Mass Violence and Armed Conflict -- 3 On Ernst Papanek -- Part II: The Texts -- 4 Editorial Remarks -- 5 Project for Establishing Training Homes for Refugee Children -- 6 Children in Wartime -- 7 Jewish Youth in a World of Persecution and War -- 8 Some Fragments -- 9 Report by E. Papanek to the American Committee of "OSE" -- 10 "I Like Everything but Air-Condition": How Refugee Children React to the American Way of Life -- 11 Initial Problems of a Children's Home and Experimental School for Refugee Children: The Refugee Children's Homes in Montmorency, France -- 12 Some Children's Letters -- 13 Homes for Refugee Children of the O.S.E. Union in France (1940) -- 14 They were Not Expendable -- 15 Untitled First Draft Dictated on the Maladjusted Child -- 16 Sources and Works Cited -- Index