Finnish refugee children’s experiences of Swedish refugee camps during the Second World War

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Merja Paksuniemi
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Camp Life ◽  
Second World

This article seeks to demonstrate how Finnish refugee children experienced living in Swedish refugee camps during the Second World War (1939–1945). The study focuses on children’s opinions and experiences reflected through adulthood. The data were collected through retrospective interviews with six adults who experienced wartime as children in Finland and were evacuated to Sweden as refugees. Five of the interviewees were female and one of them was male. The study shows, it was of decisive importance to the refugee children’s well-being to have reliable adults around them during the evacuation and at the camps. The findings demonstrate that careful planning made a significant difference to the children´s adaptations to refugee camp life. The daily routines at the camp, such as regular meals, play time and camp school, reflected life at home and helped the children to continue their lives, even under challenging circumstances.

scholarly journals Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run: Lessons from Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Blum ◽  
Eoin McLaughlin ◽  
Nick Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Average Height ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Comprehensive Wealth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

Abstract We construct long-run sustainability indicators based on changes in Comprehensive Wealth - which we refer to as Genuine Savings (GS) - for Germany over the period 1850-2000. We find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the two World Wars and also the Great Depression. We also test the relationship between these wealth changes and a number of measures of well-being over the long-run: changes in consumption as well as changes in average height and infant mortality rates. We find a positive relationship between GS and our well-being indicators over different time horizons, however, the relationship breaks down during WWII. We also test if the GS/Comprehensive Wealth framework is able to cope with massive disinvestment at the end of the Second World War due to war-related destructions and dismantlement. We find that negative rates of GS were by and large avoided due to the accumulation of technology and growth-friendly institutions. We demonstrate the importance of broader measures of capital, including measures of technological progress, and its role in the process of economic development; and the limits of conventional measures of investment to understand why future German consumption did not collapse.

From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp

2003 ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Bret Werb ◽  
Barbara Milewski
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Camp Life ◽  
Second World

This chapter studies the large and varied repertoire of songs created by Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Most common of these compositions are parodies of songs popular before the war. Drawing on well-known melodies and familiar styles such as the tango, waltz, or foxtrot, prisoners who listened to, created, and performed these songs could reclaim, if only for a moment, some part of their lost popular culture. Yet paradoxically, and as many survivors attest, these same songs, with their unsparing depictions of camp life, helped prisoners push aside thoughts of life before captivity and so preserve their mental balance during those difficult years. The chapter then looks at one parody song, ‘Heil, Sachsenhausen’, and also examines the song parodied, ‘Madagaskar’, itself a satirical consideration of the Jewish predicament in inter-war Poland. ‘Heil, Sachsenhausen’ served not only as a narrative of camp experience, but also as a darkly comic condemnation of Nazi ‘racial purity’ laws. Moreover, this parody song may have functioned as a zone of inquiry for the author's personal reflections on German-Polish and Polish-Jewish relations before and during the Second World War.

Frustrated Expectations: Experiences of Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Ex-Servicemen in the Post-Second World War Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-216
Author(s):  
Alfred Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Second World

This article examines how Northern Rhodesian ex-servicemen experienced home life after the Second World War, the problems they encountered, and the society into which they were reintegrated. Challenges faced by African veterans made them restless and discontented compared to European ex-servicemen who benefited from entrenched discriminatory racial practices. Using hitherto unexplored materials from the National Archives of Zambia, this article further argues that African ex-servicemen were preoccupied with their immediate personal well-being and not wider societal issues such as nationalism. This stands in contrast to older academic arguments that African ex-servicemen played a vital role in nationalist politics.

A High Temperature Decompression Chamber for Developing Aircraft Environmental Control Systems

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (602) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
O. D. Furlong
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Military Aircraft ◽  
World War ◽  
Humidity Control ◽  
Second World

The greatly increased performance of both civil and military aircraft since the Second World War has raised problems undreamt of at an earlier period and, from the simple measures originally introduced to improve pilot’s well-being, have sprung the complex installations which are now essential for human survival and comfort and to ensure the proper functioning of vital equipment carried in present day machines.The term “Environmental Control System” is used for convenience to cover collectively the various cabin and equipment bay, pressure, temperature and humidity control systems that are fitted.

scholarly journals Discrimination in Focus

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kiely ◽  
Andrew Caisley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Comprehensive Health ◽  
Second World

In the fust two or three decades after the Second World War there was a considerable movement internationally to address issues relating to the well being of people in the work force. Part of this overall thrust saw the development in many countries of comprehensive health and safety legislation of the type that New Zealand has just introduced

scholarly journals Verschiebungen im Verfassungskompromiss von den deutschen Landesverfassungen zum europäischen Reformvertrag

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (149) ◽  
pp. 623-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Fisahn ◽  
Regina Viotto
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
World War ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Second World

Hesse was the first state in Germany after the second world war, with a new constitution. This constitution differs in many ways from the German Grundgesetz and more from the European reform treaty. The Hessian Constitution prefers a democratic control of the economy, the Grundgesetz follows a neutral concept concerning the economy which means the democratic process is in charge to define the relation of society and economy. The significant difference of the European reform treaty is its radical market oriented concept of the economy.

scholarly journals THE DECLINE OF THE WELLFARE STATE IN MODERN SOCIETY

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Kire Sharlamanov
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

The welfare state is a relatively new social phenomenon. Its rudimentary forms appear at the beginning of the 20th century, and it was especially developed immediately after the Second World War. It was created in order to reduce acute social conflicts in societies around the world and to give citizens the minimum conditions for subsistence. From its founding, to this day, the welfare state is at the center of the attention of the professional and general public. This article attempts to define and categorize a state of well-being, but also to consider modern trends that reflect it. Particular attention will be paid to reducing the welfare state and the reasons why it occurs. From the many factors that are often considered in the context of the decline of the welfare state, here we will primarily analyze the demographic, economic and political factors.

Displaced persons, returnees and ‘unsuitables’: the Dutch selection of DPs (1945–1951)

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlou Schrover ◽  
Tycho Walaardt
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Period ◽  
To Come ◽  
Camp Life ◽  
Second World ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractAfter the Second World War, Dutch authorities allowed 8,000 displaced persons (DPs) to come to the Netherlands, but only 3,904 came, and 25 per cent of them returned to camp life in Germany. This article seeks to explain why debates on the DP issue changed so rapidly within a short period of time. In earlier publications, it has been claimed that ‘selling’ DPs as workers helped to solve the DP issue. This strategy did not work for the Netherlands. This article analyses how the DP issue was framed by organisations, the Dutch government, civil servants, the Dutch Homeland Security Department, newspapers and employers.

scholarly journals NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF POST LITERACY PROGRAMME: A STUDY IN THE EASTERN AND WESTERN DISTRICTS OF THE STATE OF ODISHA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (47) ◽  
pp. 11508-11514
Author(s):  
Sujata Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Literacy Programme ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Second World

Education is life and life is education. Education is very much necessary for making the citizens alert and capable of discharging their duties and responsibilities efficiently and wisely. Education is necessary not only for enabling man to participate in the affairs of the society and the government but also to save mankind from destruction and extinction. Many of us have realised the devastating effects of the second world war. A third such war will result in total extinction of human race. The need of the hour is understanding and international understanding, mutual love and respect for each other’s well being which can be developed through education. In the year 1946, the International Community charged UNESCO with the responsibility of promotion throughout the world due to its vital importance to the individual and social well-being. The United Nations proclaimed universal declaration of human rights. Article 45 of the Indian Constitution says that, the state shall endeavour to provide, “Universal, free and compulsory education to all children upto the age of 14 years within 10 years from the date of adoption of the constitution. The Education Commission (1964-66) holds that education is the powerful instrument which can bring changes in the society.

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