Dalia Ofer

Hana Weiner

חנה ויינר

Relates how over 1,000 Jewish refugees who set out from Central Europe in November 1939 to reach Palestine, travelling by boat on the Danube, were detained in Yugoslavia and trapped by the Nazi invasion in April 1941. Most of them were murdered. The group was organized by the Hehalutz Zionist organization in Vienna and Berlin, along with the Mossad le-Aliyah Bet in Palestine. In December 1939 the Yugoslav government refused to allow them to proceed to Romania because there was no ship waiting there to take them to Palestine. The boats were moored at Kladovo, and in September 1940 they were moved to the town of Šabac. Based on letters written by the refugees to family and friends, and archival documents, describes the initial organization of the group, daily life in Kladovo and Šabac, and the failure of Zionist leaders to organize rescue in time. Some members of the group succeeded in emigrating through Youth Aliyah, leaving Šabac in March 1941. Ch. 4 (p. 93-116) describes the Nazi occupation and the fate of the group in the context of the Final Solution in Serbia.

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Françoise S. Ouzan

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors' return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.

Resettlement, Memories, Identities

Holocaust Survivors

Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Eva Fogelman

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this unique form of historical record.

Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive

Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

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