Young Victims of the Nazi Regime

Simone Gigliotti is Senior Lecturer in History at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2009). Simone is also one of the co-editors of The Holocaust: A Reader (2005) and Ethics, Art and Representations of the Holocaust (2014).Monica Tempian is Senior Lecturer in German at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• Part I: MigrationDepartures to New Homelands: Adaptation and Belonging in Refugee Countries1. Jewish Refugee Children in the USA (1934-1945): Flight, Resettlement, Absorption Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)2. “Detour to Canada”. The Fate of Juvenile Austrian-Jewish Refugees After the ‘Anschluss’ of 1938 Andrea Strutz (University of Graz, Austria)3. “This tear remains forever…” German-Jewish Refugee Children and Youth in Brazil (1933-1945): Resettlement, Acculturation, Integration Marlen Eckl (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil)4. A Distant Sanctuary: Australia and Child Holocaust Survivors Suzanne D. Rutland (University of Sydney, Australia)5. “The Children Are a Triumph”: New Zealand’s Response to Europe’s Children and Youth, 1933-1949 Ann Beaglehole (Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, New Zealand)6. “No common mother tongue or fatherland”: Jewish Refugee Children in British Kenya Jennifer Reeve (University of East Anglia, UK)Part II: The HolocaustGhetto and Camp Battlegrounds: Imprisonment, Activism and Forced Labour7. Polish and Soviet Child Forced Labourers in National Socialist Germany and German-Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945 Johannes-Dieter Steinert (University of Wolverhampton, UK)8. The Forced Relocation to the Krakow Ghetto as Remembered by Child Survivors Joanna Sliwa (Clark University, USA)9. The Fate of Children at the Majdanek Concentration Camp Marta Grudzinska (State Museum at Majdanek, Poland)10. Children and Youth in Auschwitz: Experiences of Life and Labour Gideon Greif (Faith and the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation and Research, Israel)11. The Legend of the Ghetto Fighters: Zionist Youth Movements and Resistance during and after the Holocaust Avinoam J. Patt (University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA)Part III: Postwar Displacement“War Childhoods” in an Unforgiving World: Memory, Rehabilitation and Silence12. The Kinder’s Children: Second Generation and the Kindertransport Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth University, UK)13. Remembering the “Pain of Belonging”: Jewish Children Hidden as Catholics in Second World War France Mary Fraser Kirsh (College of William and Mary, Arlington, USA)14. Unaccompanied Children and the Allied Child Search: “The right […] a child has to his own heritage” Susanne Urban (International Tracing Service, Germany)15. Children of Lidice: Searches, Shadows, and Histories J. E. Smyth (University of Warwick, UK)16. Europe’s Children across the Borders of Memory Roger Hillman (Australian National University, Australia)Index

The book will occupy an important space in the growing historiography on children as well as the enormous library of studies of the Holocaust and Nazism. By locating and writing about the survivors, the editors created the kind of children’s history that skeptics too often believe is not possible. It is also a very good example of the new global history.