“Survivor caregivers and child survivors: Rebuilding lives and the home in the postwar period”, Cohen, B. (2018)
The educational and rehabilitative work that three young women, Holocaust Survivors, carried out with uprooted child Holocaust survivors in postwar children’s homes forms the subject of the following article. It establishes how they perceived the children and interacted with them, tracing their concerns, deliberations, and professional choices, and elucidates the practices and strategies they formulated.
“I Will Not Be Believed”: Benjamin Tenenbaum and the Representation of the Child Survivor”, Cohen, B. & Finder, G. (2017)
The paper describes the work of of Benjamin Tenenbaum in collecting and publishing early children testimonies in 1945-1947 Poland. Tennebaum was in Poland in the aftermath of the Holocaust and devoted much of his time to working with survivor children and collecting their testimonies.
Cohen B.(2017). Goals and Challenges of the Research into Holocaust Survivor and DP children
This program for further research of post war child survivor DPs, aims to map the field and define the major research directions. It also conceptualizes these children’s experiences and work done with them in the immediate post-war years.
Cohen, B., & Müller, B. (2013). The 1945 Bytom Notebook: Searching for the Lost Voices of Child Holocaust Survivors
This paper focuses on an unpublished Yiddish manuscript of 42 child Holocaust testimonies, collected and written down in Polish Bytom in 1945 by Shlomo Tsam, the principal of the local Hebrew School, who – through chronicling the fate of his charges under the Nazis – gave permanence to the children’s stories of loss and survival, […]
Cohen, B., & Horvath, R. (2012). Young Witnesses in the DP camps: Children’s Holocaust testimony in context
Early child survivor testimonies tell us much about the children’s Holocaust experience and about society’s attitude to child survivors. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of two such testimonies on the backdrop of historical research of their setting and context in the Aschau DP Children’s Camp
Cohen, B. (2010). Representing Children’s Holocaust: Children’s Survivor testimonies published in Fun Lezten Hurban, Munich 1946-1949
This paper tells the story of the publication and representation of children’s testimonies in the first-ever Holocaust research journal, Fun Lezten Hurban, published by the Central Historical Commission in Munich during 1946–48. Each issue of the journal included a child survivor testimony.
Cohen, B. (2007). The Children’s Voice: Post-War Collection of Testimonies from Children Survivors of the Holocaust
In the aftermath of World War II, adults—mainly survivors—collected thousands of hand-written testimonies from child survivors of the Holocaust. the paper describes the process by which the testimonies were collected and examines the underlying sensibilities of its initiators.
Cohen, B. (2006). And I was Only a Child: Children’s Testimonies Bergen-Belsen 1945
This paper focuses on the early testimonies collected from child survivors in the Bergen Belsen DP camp. They are a unique source for understanding children’s Holocaust experiences and the rehabilitation work done in the camp.