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Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust

Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust

Clifford, Rebecca

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Child PsychologyGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

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ISBN10: 0300264704
ISBN13: 9780300264708
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Mar 8 2022
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.72
Language: English
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust--named a best history book of 2020 by the Daily Telegraph

Impressive, beautifully written, judicious and thoughtful. . . . Will be a major milestone in the history of the Holocaust and its legacy.--Mark Roseman, author of The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting

How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age.

Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them--as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children--often branded the lucky ones--had to struggle to be able to call themselves survivors at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford's powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss.

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