Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

Adler, Eliyana R. (EDT)/ Capková, Katerina (EDT)

Rutgers University Press（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 292 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978819511
• DDC分類 306.85089924

Full Description

Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses.
 
In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the importance of recognizing how people continued to function within family units-broadly defined-throughout the war and afterward.

Contents

Introduction: Why the Family?                                                                                            
Kateřina ČapkovÁ and Eliyana R. Adler

Part 1 - Family in Times of Genocide

The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust - How Much do We Know? An Ethnographic-Historical Study in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region
Volha Bartash
 
Separation and Divorce in the ŁÓdź and Warsaw Ghettos                                                   
Michal Unger

Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas
Dalia Ofer  

Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families                
Natalia Aleksiun

Part II - Intervention of Institutions

Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the "Holocaust Orphan"?
Laura Hobson Faure  

The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945-49
ViktÓria BÁnyai  

'For Your Benefit': Military Marriage Policies, European Jewish War Brides, and the Centrality of Family, 1944-1950 Robin Judd

Part III - Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust

'Returning to Normality?': The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany
Anja Reuss
 
'I Could Never Forget What They'd Done to My Father': The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family's Letter Collection
Joachim SchlÖr
 
'Looking for a Nice Jewish girl ...': Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany before and after the Holocaust
Sarah E. Wobick-Segev

The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia Helena SadÍlkovÁ  

Notes on Contributors   
                                                                                                     
Acknowledgements