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Never Look Back
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as \"transmigrants,\" planning to return to Europe once the Nazis lost power. In practice, most of the kinder, as they called themselves, remained in Britain, eventually becoming citizens. This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children. After an analysis of the decision to allow the children entry and the machinery of rescue established to facilitate its implementation, the book follows the young refugees from their European homes to their resettlement in Britain either with foster families or in refugee hostels. Evacuated from the cities with hundreds of thousands of British children, they soon found themselves in the countryside with new foster families, who often had no idea how to deal with refugee children barely able to understand eng. Members of particular refugee children's groups receive special attention: participants in the Youth Aliyah movement, who immigrated to the United States during the war to reunite with their families; those designated as \"Friendly Enemy Aliens\" at the war's outbreak, who were later deported to Australia and Canada; and Orthodox refugee children, who faced unique challenges attempting to maintain religious observance when placed with Gentile foster families who at times even attempted to convert them. Based on archival sources and follow-up interviews with refugee children both forty and seventy years after their flight to Britain, this book gives a unique perspective into the political, bureaucratic, and human aspects of the Kindertransport scheme prior to and during World War II.
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Teaching a Dark Chapter
Teaching a Dark Chapter
explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi
past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively
calm, undisturbed paths of little change until isolated
\"flashpoints\" catalyzed the educational infrastructure into periods
of rapid transformation. Though these flashpoints varied
among Italy and the Germanys, they all roughly conformed to a
chronological scheme and permanently changed how each \"dark past\"
was represented.
Historians have often neglected textbooks as sources in their
engagement with the reconstruction of postfascist states and the
development of postwar memory culture. But as Teaching a Dark
Chapter demonstrates, textbooks yield new insights and suggest
a new chronology of the changes in postwar memory culture that
other sources overlook. Employing a methodological and temporal
rethinking of the narratives surrounding the development of
European Holocaust memory, Daniela R. P. Weiner reveals how, long
before 1968, textbooks in these three countries served as important
tools to influence public memory about Nazi/Fascist atrocities.
As Fascism had been spread through education, then education
must play a key role in undoing the damage. Thus, to repair and
shape postwar societies, textbooks became an avenue to inculcate
youths with desirable democratic and socialist values. Teaching
a Dark Chapter weds the historical study of public memory with
the educational study of textbooks to ask how and why the textbooks
were created, what they said, and how they affected the society
around them.
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Topographies of suffering
At the forefront of transcultural innovations in memory studies. Provides a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of Holocaust commemoration, combining approaches from literary ecocriticism, cultural geography and cultural studies. Sheds new light on transnational networks of Holocaust memory.
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Nightmare's Fairy Tale
Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated
St. Louis ; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century history to rescue the remarkable life story of one of its survivors.
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Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend
A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango at executions before they themselves were murdered. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.
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