Table Of ContentJoanna Beata Michlic,
Jewish
editor
Families
I N E U R O P E
1 9 3 9 – P R E S E N T
History,
Representation,
and Memory
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FAMILIES,
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1939–,
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Jewish
Families
in europe,
1939–
present
hiStoR y,
RepReS entation,
and memoRy
EditEd by
Joanna bEata Michlic
brandEis UnivErsity PrEss
WalthaM, MassachUsEtts
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names: Michlic, Joanna B., editor.
title: Jewish families in Europe, 1939–present: history, representation,
and memory / edited by Joanna Beata Michlic.
description: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University
Press, [2017] | Series: hbi series on Jewish women | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
identifiers: lccn 2016029651 (print) | lccn 2016030060 (ebook) |
isbn 9781512600094 (cloth: alk. paper) | isbn 9781512600100
(pbk.: alk. paper) | isbn 9781512600117 (epub, mobi & pdf)
subjects: lcsh: Jewish families —Europe, —History —20th century. |
Jewish families —Europe, —History —21st century. | Jewish
children in the Holocaust. | Holocaust survivors.
classification: lcc hq525.j4 j394 2017 (print) |
lcc hq525.j4 (ebook) | ddc 306.85/089924–dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029651
Contents
Foreword
Sylvia Barack Fishman ix
Preface
Joanna Beata Michlic xi
Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation,
and Memory —An Introduction
Joanna Beata Michlic xv
Part I ■ Parenthood and ChIldhood under sIege,
1939–1945
1 Parenthood in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Dalia Ofer 3
2 Clandestine Activities and Concealed Presence: A Case Study of
Children in the Kraków Ghetto
Joanna Sliwa 26
3 Resistance in Everyday Life: Family Strategies, Role Reversals,
and Role Sharing in the Holocaust
Lenore J. Weitzman 46
4 The National Institute for the Israelite Deaf-Mute in Budapest,
1938–1948: A Case Study for the Rescue Strategy of Continuously
Operating Jewish Communal Institutions
Kinga Frojimovics 67
5 Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport
from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
Kenneth Waltzer 85
6 Life in Hiding and Beyond
Jennifer Marlow 110
Part II ■ after the War: rebuIldIng shattered lIves,
reColleCtIng WartIme exPerIenCes
7 A Zionist Home: Jewish Youths and the Kibbutz Family
after the Holocaust
Avinoam Patt 131
8 What Does a Child Remember? Recollections of the War and the
Early Postwar Period among Child Survivors from Poland
Joanna Beata Michlic 153
9 Memory Imprints: Testimonies as Historical Sources
Rita Horváth 173
10 “ I Will Not Be Believed”: Benjamin Tenenbaum and the
Representation of the Child Survivor
Boaz Cohen and Gabriel N. Finder 196
11 Transcending Memory in Holocaust Survivors’ Families
Uta Larkey 209
12 Holocaust Child Survivors, Sixty-Five Years after Liberation: From
Mourning to Creativity
Eva Fogelman 233
afterword
In Defense of Eyewitness Testimonies: Reflections of a Writer and
Child Survivor of the Holocaust
Henryk Grynberg 249
List of Contributors 261
Index 265
