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"Born in Hungary in 1927, Magda Hollander-Lafon was among the 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May and July 1944. Magda, her mother, and her younger sister survived a three-day deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; there, she was considered fit for work and so spared, while her mother and sister were sent straight to their deaths. Hollander-Lafon recalls an experience she had in Birkenau: "A dying woman gestured to me: as she opened her hand to reveal four scraps of moldy bread, she said to me in a barely audible voice, 'Take it. You are young. You must live to be a witness to what is happening here. You must tell people so that this never happens again in the world.' I took those four scraps of bread and ate them in front of her. In her look I read both kindness and release. I was very young and did not understand what this act meant, or the responsibility that it represented." Years later, the memory of that woman's act came to the fore, and Magda Hollander-Lafon could be silent no longer. In her words, she wrote her book not to obey the duty of remembering but in loyalty to the memory of those women and men who disappeared before her eyes. Her story is not a simple memoir or chronology of events. Instead, through a series of short chapters, she invites us to reflect on what she has endured. Often centered on one person or place, the scenes of brutality and horror she describes are intermixed with reflections of a more meditative cast. Four Scraps of Bread is both historical and deeply evocative, melancholic, and at times poetic in nature. Following the text is a "Historical Note" with a chronology of the author's life that complements her kaleidoscopic style. After liberation and a period in transit camps, she arrived in Belgium, where she remained. Eventually, she chose to be baptized a Christian and pursued a career as a child psychologist. The author records a journey through extreme suffering and loss that led to radiant personal growth and a life of meaning. As she states: "Today I do not feel like a victim of the Holocaust but a witness reconciled with myself." Her ability to confront her experiences and free herself from her trauma allowed her to embrace a life of hope and peace. Her account is, finally, an exhortation to us all to discover life-giving joy"--
Holocaust survivors --- Jews --- Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Hollander-Lafon, Magda. --- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
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L'auteure révèle l'action de sauveteurs juifs qui ont oeuvré, en 1943, dans le secret le plus absolu, sous de fausses identités, pour venir en aide aux enfants juifs. Aidés par un réseau clandestin comprenant des catholiques et des protestants, ils faisaient passer les enfants en Suisse sous les barrières de fils barbelés. ©Electre 2016
World War, 1939-1945 --- Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Jews --- 2eme Guerre mondiale --- Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste --- Juifs --- Jews --- Rescue. --- History --- Juifs --- Sauvetage --- Histoire
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Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Jewish refugees --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Wolczak, Rosette,
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Souvenirs de J. Hescheles, chimiste et écrivaine, sauvée en 1943 du camp Janowski à Lviv, parus en 1946 en Pologne. Elle décrit le début de l'occupation allemande en Ukraine en 1941, son arrestation et celle de sa mère, et les conditions d'internement des Juifs dans le camp. Avec des fragments inédits. ©Electre 2016
Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Jews --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste --- Juifs --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Persecutions --- Concentration camps --- Persécutions --- Camps de concentration
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After sixty years, Kristine Keese is finally able to share the memories of her years spent in the Warsaw Ghetto as a small child. She owes her survival, and that of her young uncle, to the striking resourcefulness of her mother. The story emerges as vividly as if it happened yesterday, full of details that only a child would notice. Although the the events of the Warsaw Ghetto and the fate of its victims has been described many times, Keese's story is exceptional, as it is told through the eyes of, not a victim, but a child engaged with her daily reality focused on survival.
Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Keese, Kristine, --- Rosenthal, Kristine M., --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Warsaw, Poland : 1943) --- 1939-1945 --- Warsaw (Poland) --- Poland --- History --- World War II Period --- Warszawa (Poland) --- Varsovie (Poland) --- Warschau (Poland) --- Varshah (Poland) --- Varsovia (Poland) --- Varshava (Poland) --- Fārṣūfyā (Poland) --- Fārshāfā (Poland) --- Varsavia (Poland) --- Ṿarshe (Poland) --- Ṿarsha (Poland) --- Varsovio (Poland) --- Capital City of Warsaw (Poland) --- Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa (Poland) --- Warszewa (Poland) --- Warszowa (Poland)
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"During the Nazi regime many children and youth living in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime is a significant attempt to represent the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second World War and aspects of memory. The book is unique in that it places the experiences of children and youth in a transnational context, shifting the conversation of displacement and refuge to countries that have remained under-examined in a comparative context. Featuring essays from a wide range of international experts in the field, it analyses these themes in three sections: the flight and migration of children and youth to countries including England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, and Brazil; the experiences of children and youth who remained in Nazi Europe and became victims of war, displacement and deportation; and finally the challenges of rebuilding lives and representing war traumas in the immediate and recent post-war periods respectively. In its comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish experiences and how these intersected and diverged, it revisits debates about cultural genocide through the separation of families and communities, as well as contributing new perspectives on forced labour, families and the Holocaust, and Germans as war victims."-- "A multi-authored work examining the experiences of children and youth whose lives were affected by the policies of the Nazi regime"--
Jewish children in the Holocaust. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Children. --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)
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