Wallstein Verlag

Childhood during War and Genocide


Agency, Survival, and Representation

Ed. by Joanna Beata Michlic, Yuliya von Saal, and Anna Ullrich

Reihe: European Holocaust Studies; Bd. 5


Child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-jewish slavic children, and war children of the Second World War


EHS Volume 5 presents child-oriented research approaches by scholars from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Genocide Studies, and Second World War History. The authors highlight key concepts of Childhood Studies, arguing that children are historical actors with their own ideas, identity-forming experiences, and agency. The contributions demonstrate the importance of children`s accounts of war and postwar experiences for deeper understanding of the history of war and society in the twentieth century. The volume showcases a variety of children`s voices including child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-Jewish Slavic children, and war children of the Second World War by utilising testimonies from lesser-known archival and oral history collections.
Includes:
Edita Gzoyan: Forcibly Transferred and Assimilated: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide.
Dieter Steinert: Echoes from Hell: Jewish Child Forced Labourers and the Holocaust.
Oksana Vynnyk: Surviving Starvation in Soviet Ukraine: Children and Soviet Healthcare in the early 1930s.
Joanna Beata Michlic

Joanna Beata Michlic was a social and cultural historian specializing in the history of the Holocaust and its memory in Europe, East European Jewish childhood, the rescue of Jews, and antisemitism and nationalism in Europe. In January 2023, she began ...

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Anna Ullrich

Anna Ullrich is a research associate at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich and project manager for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Her research interests include Jewish-German ...

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Yuliya von Saal

Yuliya von Saal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Her research interests include the history of the Soviet Union and childhood, the Holocaust, and the Second World War and sexual violence. She is ...

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Contents

Joanna Beata Michlic, Yuliya von Saal, Anna Ullrich
Introduction

Edita G. Gzoyan
Forcibly Transferred and Assimilated: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide

Yuliya von Saal
Forced Maturity: Children's Experiences under German Occupation in Belarus, 1941–1944

Johannes-Dieter Steinert
Echoes from Hell: Jewish Child Forced Laborers and the Holocaust

Lilia Tomchuk
Challenging Narratives: Unveiling Encounters between Jewish Children/Adolescents and Italian Military Units in Transnistria during the Holocaust

Laura Hobson Faure
Jewish Child Refugees from Central Europe in France and the United States: Transnational Perspectives on their Care, 1938–1945

Jakub Gałęziowski
The Best Interests of the Child in National Terms: Policies Concerning Children of Polish Female Forced Laborers and Displaced Persons in the Early Cold War Era

Anna M. Parkinson
Revisiting the “Talking Cure”: Capturing Children’s Wartime Experiences through Hans Keilson's Work on Sequential Traumatization

Wiebke Hiemesch
A Drawing Book, Its Materiality, and Afterlife: Approaching Children’s Lives in Hamburg through Children’s Drawings from the Talmud Torah School

Zofia Trębacz
“Dear Daddy, you ask me how I spend the whole day, from morning to evening I think about you ...”: Children’s Letters and the Emotions Hidden Within Them

Lorraine McEvoy
“We feel we must add our appeal”: Humanitarian Decision-Making in Three Appeals to the Government in Post-Second World War Britain

Oksana Vynnyk
Surviving Starvation in Soviet Ukraine: Children and Soviet Healthcare in the Early 1930s

Barnabas Balint
Intersectional Approaches to Jewish Youth During the Holocaust in Hungary

Lukas Schretter, Nadjeschda Stoffers
Ambivalent but Not Indifferent: Interview Narratives of 'Lebensborn' Children Born in the Wienerwald Maternity Home, 1938–1945


About the Authors



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