Freilegungen

Until relatively recently, the vast literature on the Holocaust contained very little on the youngest survivors of the genocide. Sandwiched between adult survivors and a ‘second generation’ of children born to survivors after the war, child survivors were relatively late to begin to give testimony, late to begin to call themselves survivors and late to receive historians’ attention. However, this has changed in recent years. A number of new edited volumes on child survivors in the aftermath of the war are now available, and the present book, edited by Henning Borggräfe, Akim Jah, Nina Ritz and Steffen Jost, is among them. The volume is based on papers presented at a 2016 workshop, organised by the International Tracing Service, on child survivors and displaced children in the period after the war. It is a valuable collection that incorporates both historical and pedagogical approaches, with a section devoted to displaced persons (DPs) as a topic for educational work. As such, it will be of interest both to scholars of the history of displaced persons, of genocide and of children, but equally to those who teach these subjects (or are considering doing so) at secondary school and undergraduate levels, or in the context of museums, memorials and other public educational and commemorative spaces

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