Child Survivors of the Holocaust. The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience

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Acknowledgements

Research for writing this review was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, UEFISCDI, for grant no. 5 / 2018, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0091, Transcultural Networks in Narratives about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

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Notes

1. Patricia Heberer, Children during the Holocaust (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2011).

2. Tara Zahra, The Lost Children. Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).

3. Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman and Dalia Ofer, eds., Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive (New York: Berghan, 2017).

4. See also Sharon Kangisser Cohen, “Survivors of the Holocaust and their Children,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9, no. 2 (July 2010): 165–183.

5. Leon Shapiro, ‘Jewish Children in Liberated Europe. Their Needs and the JDC Child-Care Work.’ In Research Department Reports, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1-12. No. 1, January 1946.

6. Beth B. Cohen, Child Survivors of the Holocaust. The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018).

7. Ibid., 13.

8. Ibid., 14.

9. Ibid., 14–15.

10. Ibid., 23.

11. Ibid., 25.

12.. Ibid., 31.

13. Ibid., 37.

14. Ibid., 40–42.

15. Ibid., 59.

16. Ibid., 86–87.

17. Joanna B. Michlic, ‘“Who Am I?” Jewish Children’s Search for Identity in Post-War Poland 1945-1949,” Polin 20 (2007): 98–121.

18.. Cohen, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, 92.

19. Ibid., 135–136.

20. Alina Bothe and Markus Nesselrodt, “Survivor: Towards a Conceptual History,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 61 (2016): 57–82.

21. Cohen, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, 137.

22. Dwork, Deborah. Children with a Star. Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

23. Cohen, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, 139.

24. Judith S. Kestenberg and Eva Fogelman, eds., Children during the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process (Longon: Praeger, 1994).

25. Cohen, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, 149.

26. Ibid., 51.

27. Ibid., 1–2.