Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

ELIYANA R. ADLER is an associate professor in the Department of History and Program in Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Adler’s first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia received the Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women’s Studies in 2011. She co-edited volume 30 of Polin as well as Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades and Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. She is completing a project on Polish Jews who survived World War II in the un-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and starting a new one on memorial books.KATEŘINA ČAPKOVÁ is a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague, and teaches at Charles University and  NYU in Prague. Her book Czechs, Germans, Jews? National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia received the Outstanding Academic Title of 2012 from Choice magazine. With Michal Frankl, she co-authored Unsichere Zuflucht, a book about refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria to Czechoslovakia. With Hillel J. Kieval she is co-editor of Prague and Beyond. Jews in the Bohemian Lands, a collective monograph on history of Jews in the Bohemian Lands from the early modern period up to present times. In 2016 she established Prague Forum for Romani Histories (http://www.romanihistories.usd.cas.cz/). Currently she is working on a project on entangled history of Jews and Roma in Central Europe in the 20th century.

"Charting how both Jewish and Romani families dealt with Nazi persecution, this volume offers a long-overdue and innovative attempt to integrate the histories of these two racially persecuted groups."  - Ari Joskowicz (author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France) In an innovatively comparative and integrated framework, the diverse contributions to this groundbreaking volume examine the variety of intimate ties that Jews and Roma built and broke in their efforts to survive the onslaught of the Holocaust. This outstanding book should top the reading list of anyone interested in the effects of genocide on the most fundamental of human relationships. - Benjamin Frommer (co-editor of Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extreme)

• Introduction: Why the Family?                                                                                            Kateřina ČapkovÁ and Eliyana R. AdlerPart 1 - Family in Times of GenocideThe Romani Family before and during the Holocaust - How Much do We Know? An Ethnographic-Historical Study in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border RegionVolha Bartash  Separation and Divorce in the ŁÓdź and Warsaw Ghettos                                                   Michal UngerNarrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and DilemmasDalia Ofer  Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families                Natalia AleksiunPart II - Intervention of InstitutionsSiblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan”?Laura Hobson Faure  The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–49ViktÓria BÁnyai  ‘For Your Benefit’: Military Marriage Policies, European Jewish War Brides, and the Centrality of Family, 1944–1950 Robin JuddPart III - Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust‘Returning to Normality?’: The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar GermanyAnja Reuss  ‘I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father’: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter CollectionJoachim SchlÖr  ‘Looking for a Nice Jewish girl ...’: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany before and after the HolocaustSarah E. Wobick-SegevThe Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia Helena SadÍlkovÁ  Notes on Contributors                                                                                                         Acknowledgements