Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Sharon Kangisser Cohen is the Director of the Director of the Diane and Eli Zborowski Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath and the Deportation Project at the The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. She is, in addition, a lecturer at Haifa University and the Rothberg School for international students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent book, Testimony and Time: Survivors of the Holocaust Remember, was published in 2015 by Yad Vashem.

“An index of persons, places and institutions round off a solidly edited volume that gives many ideas of how the Kestenberg Archive can be used for research about the consequences of the national-socialist murder of Jews.” • Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung“Identifying and evaluating sources is fundamental in the history of child- hood, especially since children so rarely leave their own records. This book is about one such source, remarkable in its conception and with some serious potential for understanding a very challenging subject—the experience of the surviving children of the Holocaust.” • The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth“This volume is not only timely and welcome, but it will help define a field of inquiry. For scholars and students looking to explore the considerable resources of Holocaust testimonies, this is a valuable resource.” • Françoise Ouzan, Tel Aviv University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman and Dalia OferPART I: METHODOLOGYChapter 1. Age, Circumstance, and Outcome in Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Considerations of the Literature and a Report of a Study Using Narrative Content AnalysisGila Sandler Saban, K. Mark Sossin, and Anastasia YasikPART II: IMMEDIATE POSTWAR PERIODChapter 2. A Child’s View: Children’s Depositions of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Poland)Sharon Kangisser CohenChapter 3. Starting Over: Reconstituted Families after the HolocaustBeth B. CohenChapter 4. “Both Valuable and Difficult”: A Meeting Point between Historical and Psychological InterviewsRita Horváth and Katalin ZanaPART III: POST WAR MEMORY, COPING MECHANISMS, AND ADJUSTMENTChapter 5. Performative Memory-Making and the Future of the Kestenberg ArchiveStephenie YoungChapter 6. Shadows of Memory and Intergenerational Legacies in Child Survivors’ Testimonies from the Kestenberg ArchiveDana MihăilescuChapter 7. Symbolic Revenge in Holocaust Child SurvivorsNancy IssermanChapter 8. Resilience in Child Survivors: History and Application of Coding of the International Study of Organized Persecution of ChildrenHelene Bass-WichelhausPART IV: NON-JEWISH VICTIMS OF WAR AND NAZISMChapter 9. “They Were Jews, but They Were Very Kind People”: Polish Language Testimonies in the Kestenberg Child Survivor ArchiveKatarzyna PersonChapter 10. War Children in Nazi Germany and World War IIIlka Quindeau, Katrin Einert, and Nadine TeuberChapter 11. Insights into the German Interviews of the Kestenberg Archive: Children of Perpetrators and How They Dealt with Their Parents’ ActionsChristina Isabel BrüningPART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONSChapter 12. Always Moving ForwardAndrew GriffelIndex