scholarly journals Navigating a Limited ‘World of Possibilities’: Refugee Journeys of Jewish Children and Youth in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Antoine Burgard
Keyword(s):  
Children And Youth ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Essential Questions ◽  
Young Survivors ◽  
Jewish Children ◽  
Jewish Survivors

What can historians bring to the current discussion about refugee journeys? Building on the example of a group of 1,115 young Jewish survivors who went to Canada in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, this article addresses two essential questions: why did they leave and why did they go to Canada and not elsewhere? Drawing on Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc's notion of a ‘world of possibilities’ and taking into consideration age as a category of analysis, I argue that one can formulate hypotheses about these journeys by, first, mapping what was and was not available to the young survivors at different moments of their displacement and, second, by looking at how individuals navigated these possibilities and constraints. In so doing, this article aims to nuance approaches that uncritically emphasise agency, and therefore erase the specificity of young people's experiences of displacement.

The Hdden Children Survived by the Holocaust. Injury and Mourning. Retrospective Research

Diogenes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazar Admadhov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Retrospective Studies ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Therapeutic Group ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Jewish Children

“Hidden Jewish children”, Holocaust survivors. Traumatisms and mourning. Retrospective studies. This contribution concerning traumatism and the mourning of Jewish children, holocaust survivors hidden in France during WWII, is a retrospective study on the psychological consequences in a situation of genocide in childhood. In this article two different types of research, carried out in France, will be underlined. The first concerns a group of former hidden children who created an association, more than half-century after the end of the war, to establish a self-therapeutic group. The second research studies former hidden children who have remained isolated and generally have had difficulties in metabolizing their traumatic experiences.

scholarly journals Szczęście w nieszczęściu. O matkach dzieci Holocaustu[dot. P. Dołowy: Wrócę, gdy będziesz spała. Rozmowy z dziećmi Holocaustu]

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-263
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Grzemska
Keyword(s):  
Main Theme ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Jewish Children ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The article is a discussion of Patrycja Dołowy’s book which contains conver-sations with Holocaust children, the survivors of Shoah. Its main theme are relations of Jewish children with their both “biological” and “foster” mothers. The topic is a complex one, for it relates to persons confronting the Holocaust trauma, their unstable, fractured identity, and more often than not, the lack of knowledge about one’s family fates and roots. The mother in those stories eludes a unifying, common, and typical definition. The cases described in the stories of Holocaust children undermine the simplifying socio-cultural constructs relating to mothers, liquefy the binary distinctions into “biol-ogical” and “foster”, Jewish and Polish; and transform the framework of speaking about motherhood and childhood.

The Galician Paradigm? Post-war Voices of German-Speaking Polish Jewish Survivors1

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Aleksiun
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
German Culture ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Historical Commissions ◽  
Post War ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Jewish Survivors ◽  
Second World

Abstract This paper examines the experience of Galician-Jewish survivors who were fluent in German and who had developed close ties to German culture before the Second World War. It suggests that looking through the German linguistic lens highlights the multilayered nature of Jewish cultural identity in Galicia and offers an important critical tool with which to understand the distinct ways in which Galician Jews experienced the Holocaust. Using personal accounts, this article analyzes the ways in which complex cultural biographies of Galician Jews shaped their identities as eastern European Jews, Polish citizens, and Holocaust survivors. On the basis of testimonies included in early accounts for the Jewish historical commissions, statements by Jewish witnesses in post-war trials, oral interviews, and memoirs, this article discusses the ways in which Galician Jews remembered their relationship with German culture and how their complex cultural identity shaped their personal trajectories after the liberation.

scholarly journals Diana Dumitru, Peasants’ perceptions of Jewish life in interwar Bessarabia and how this became interwoven into the Holocaust

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-148
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Jewish Survivors

This article analyzes the imagery shared by interwar Bessarabian peasants about their Jewish neighbours and traces the role that this imagery played in determining gentiles’ attitudes or behaviour during the summer of 1941. It is built on a vast array of sources, including, over three hundred testimonies of Jewish survivors, and archival materials studied at the National Archives of the Republic of Moldova and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. During the start of the war, civilians had brief interregnum allowing them to act on their own, unrestrained by local authorities. At this time, robberies in Jewish towns and villages occurred on an unprecedented scale across the region, with open involvement of numerous groups of civilians; sometimes these robberies were accompanied by assaults and murders. This paper argues that the plunder of Bessarabian Jewry was something more complex than war banditry.

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