Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland

Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her research focuses on Jewish childhood, rescue, and the long-term impact of genocide. Michlic is author, editor, and coeditor of numerous books, including Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (Nebraska, 2006) and Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe (Nebraska, 2013).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Here and There1. An Untold Story of Rescue: Jewish Children and Youth in Nazi-Occupied Poland Helping Each Other2. Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Early-Postwar Recollections of Survival and Polish-Jewish Relations During the Holocaust3. Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Some Vignettes of Jewish Children's Lives in Early-Postwar Poland4. What Does a Child Remember? Recollections of the War and the Early-Postwar Period5. Missed Lessons from the Holocaust: Avoiding Complexities and Darker Aspects of Jewish Child Survivors' Life ExperiencesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This timely, moving, and sometimes painful book illuminates the lives of Hitler's youngest victims: Jewish children. It shows what it meant for children to become Holocaust victims, how a small minority survived against all odds, and what happened to children once the war ended. Invaluable as a contribution to Holocaust studies, this volume likewise serves as a cautionary tale for our own times."—Jonathan D. Sarna, distinguished university professor at Brandeis University and chief historian of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History"A remarkable and moving study [that] sheds a great deal of new light on the complex problems of rescue and survival under Nazi occupation in Poland. It will have a major impact on our understanding of the Second World War and the more general problem of children subjected to the stress of conflict and loss."—Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, volumes 1–3"An enormously significant contribution to our understanding of the way children experience, adapt to, and remember trauma, the loss of childhood, the destruction of their families and their prewar world. Joanna Michlic has made superb use of archives to bring to light many fascinating case studies. The topic is not only very important in its own right but also quite timely, considering the plight of millions of children in the world today."—Samuel D. Kassow, editor of Listen and Believe: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Jozeph Zelkowicz and translator of Rokhl Auerbach's Warsaw Testament