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
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
Search as part of rehabilitating children was then and is until today of crucial importance to survivors of war and genocide. Also the issue of
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
After the Holocaust, parents and children who had survived the genocide faced significant obstacles to family reunification. Many children with at least one surviving parent
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
This paper gives a brief overview to the reception and clearing centers which existed after the war´s end in the American zone of occupation.
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
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
This paper focuses on an unpublished Yiddish manuscript of 42 child Holocaust testimonies, collected and written down in Polish Bytom in 1945 by Shlomo Tsam,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 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
The document presented here was created in 1945 in Bytom, Poland. It contains testimonies by Holocaust survivor children collected and put down in a notebook
This paper focuses on the Child Tracing Division of the UNRRA which existed from January 1946 onwards. It operated as a central clearing point with
This paper strongly arguments for acknowledging the methods and innovations with regards to rehabilitation child survivors and displaced children after the Holocaust and WW2. It
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
In April 1983, the first American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors brought together thousands of adult survivors, child survivors, and children of survivors in the
After the Second World War under the auspices of the UNRRA welfare worker and field staff on the ground created by learning by doing new
After the end of the Second World War the UNRRA was confronted with a mass atrocity which was conducted in the name of German social
