The Picture of (Mental) Health
Images of Jewish ‘Unaccompanied Children’ in the Aftermath of the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Clifford (0000-0001-7869-2519, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-156 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065123 |
| OpenAlex | W4280638410 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article uses photographs of a group of child Holocaust survivors – the so-called ‘Lingfield children’ from the Weir Courtney care home in Lingfield, Surrey – to explore how images of survivor children were deployed in the early postwar period. It argues that these images responded to broader anxieties about a generation of ‘war-damaged’ European children, and in their self-conscious portrayal of happy and settled survivor children, they intervened in postwar debates about the parameters of a ‘normal’ childhood. These images suggest that processes of reconstruction after the war were understood to be as much about psychological as physical healing, and that images of children recovering in mental health spoke to a number of postwar concerns: fears about the stability of postwar democracies, new understandings of the role of humanitarian aid, early understanding of the genocide of Europe’s Jews, and growing public interest in child psychoanalysis and issues of child development
Archaeology · Judaism · Mental health · Psychiatry · World War II · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Medical History and Research · Psychology
Children with a Star
The Lost Children
The War Inside
Images of the Holocaust — Part Ii
We are here.” New approaches to Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany
Milieu Social or Milieu Familial? Theories and Practices of Childrearing Among the Popular Classes in 20th-Century France and Britain
Displaced children of Europe, then and now
Marks Hard to Erase”
Picturing Grief
Capturing the Moment, Picturing History
Going Visual
Choosing Not to Look
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |