UID:
almafu_9959712425902883
Format:
1 online resource (286 p.)
ISBN:
9781978819542
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Why the Family? --
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PART I Family in Times of Genocide --
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Chapter 1 The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust: --
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Chapter 2 Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos --
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Chapter 3 Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: --
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Chapter 4 Uneasy Bonds: --
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PART II Intervention of Institutions --
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Chapter 5 Siblings in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath in France and the United States: --
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Chapter 6 The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–1949 --
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Chapter 7 “For Your Benefit”: --
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PART III Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust --
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Chapter 8 “Return to Normality?”: --
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Chapter 9 “I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father”: --
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Chapter 10 “Looking for a Nice Jewish Girl . . .”: --
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Chapter 11 The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978819542
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978819542
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978819542
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