Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 391p)
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ill., ports
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520248106
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0520226178
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9780520226173
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0520248104
Content:
The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house--the most visited site in the Netherlands-- has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story continues to be discussed and analyzed, her experience as a hidden child in wartime Holland is anomalous--as this book brilliantly demonstrates. Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Diane L. Wolf paints a compelling portrait of Holocaust survivors whose experiences were often diametrical
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The History and Memory of Hidden Children; 2. Before and During the War:The Netherlands and the Jews; 3. After the War: The Jews and the Netherlands; 4. "My Mother Screamed and Screamed":Memories of Occupation, War, and Hiding; 5. "I Came Home, but I Was Homesick":When Both Parents Returned; 6. "They Were Out of Their Minds":When One Parent Returned; 7. "Who Am I?": Orphans Living with Families; 8. "There Was Never a Kind Word":Life in Jewish Orphanages; 9. Creating Postwar Lives, Creating CollectiveMemory: From the Personal to the Political
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ConclusionNotes; Glossary; References; Index; Photographs follow page 162
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520248106
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beyond Anne Frank : Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland
Language:
English
