Stripped of their innocence at an early age, Jewish children who were held prisoner in concentration camps and relocated to ghettos during World War II spent their few idle moments playing “Gas Chamber,”“Gestapo Agent” and other games that reflected the horror of their surroundings. Rather th...
On the crisis in the Jewish family, see Dalia Ofer, ‘Between Cohesion and Rupture: The Jewish Family in East European Ghettos during the Holocaust’, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Coping with Life and Death in the Twentieth Century, ed. Peter Medding, vol.14 (1998), pp.143–165. Google...
According to Helmreich (1992), Kestenberg (1998), and Sigal (1989), the term “child survivors” applies to those who survived the Holocaust with one or both parents or alone, as well as to uprooted children in occupied countries and those who lived in Shanghai or Siberia during the war ...
Drawing on these sources, Dwork reveals the feelings, daily activities, and perceptions of Jewish children who lived and died in the shadow of the Holocaust. She reconstructs and analyzes the many different experiences the children faced. In the early years of Nazi domination they lived at home...
The royal, 39, joined a boat trip with two of the Windermere Children, a group of 300 Holocaust survivors who were brought to the Lake District in 1945 to help them recuperate following the atrocities they experienced in concentration camps and the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europ...