Childhood during War and Genocide

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Child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-jewish slavic children, and war children of the Second World War EHS Volume 5 presents child-oriented research approaches by scholars from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Genocide Studies, and Second World War History. The authors highlight key concepts of Childhood Studies, arguing that children are historical actors with their own ideas, identity-forming experiences, and agency. The contributions demonstrate the importance of children`s accounts of war and postwar experiences for deeper understanding of the history of war and society in the twentieth century. The volume showcases a variety of children`s voices including child survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, non-Jewish Slavic children, and war children of the Second World War by utilising testimonies from lesser-known archival and oral history collections. Includes: Edita Gzoyan: Forcibly Transferred and Assimilated: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide. Dieter Steinert: Echoes from Hell: Jewish Child Forced Labourers and the Holocaust. Oksana Vynnyk: Surviving Starvation in Soviet Ukraine: Children and Soviet Healthcare in the early 1930s.

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Joanna Beata Michlic
Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian specializing in the history of the Holocaust and its memory in Europe, East European Jewish childhood, the rescue of Jews, and antisemitism and nationalism in Europe. In January 2023, she began her two-year appointment as a Visiting Hedda Andersson Professor of Contemporary History and the Holocaust in Lund University, Sweden.

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Kindheit Krieg Nachkrieg Holocaust Nationalsozalismus Genozid Zweiter Weltkrieg Akteure Identität agency Gesellschaft 20.Jahrhundert Armenien Juden Zwangsarbeit

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»Die große Stärke des Bandes liegt darin, die Sichtverengungen der nationalgeschichtlichen Forschung aufzubrechen und Kinderperspektiven auf Krieg und Genozid ebenso fundiert wie anschaulich auszuleuchten.« (Markus Raasch, ZFG 72, 2024)
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