Hidden in Plain Sight
Jewish Children’s Survival in the Occupied Serbian Banat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12728085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirna Zakić (Ohio University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 424-444 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/dcy059 |
| OpenAlex | W2901027929 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Drawing on interviews recorded by the Shoah Foundation Institute, this article focuses on the survival of Jewish and half-Jewish children in the German-occupied Serbian Banat between 1941 and 1944. Rather than hide their physical presence or their Jewishness, these children spent the war in an environment well-aware of their identity, yet where people turned a blind eye to their Jewishness, even as the children lived in a state of fear and uncertainty. The survivors’ recollections highlight the pivotal role of parents and parental figures; the interaction of age, gender, class, and ethnicity to enable survival; the children’s own limited yet crucial agency; and the subjects’ awareness of the changes in their memory
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Ethnic group · German · Identity (music · Judaism · Political science · Serbian · Social science · Sociology · The Holocaust · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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