Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath 1978819501, 9781978819504
Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Vic
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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Why the Family? / Kateřina Čapková and Eliyana R. Adler
Part I. Family in Times of Genocide
1. 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
2. Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos / Michal Unger
3. Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas / Dalia Ofer
4. Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families / Natalia Aleksiun
Part II. Intervention of Institutions
5. Siblings in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the "Holocaust Orphan"? / Laura Hobson Faure
6. The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–1949 / Viktória Bányai
7. "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
8. "Return to Normality?": The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany / Anja Reuss
9. "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
10. "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
11. The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia / Helena Sadílková
Acknowledgments
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Why the Family? / Kateřina Čapková and Eliyana R. Adler
Part I. Family in Times of Genocide
1. 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
2. Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos / Michal Unger
3. Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas / Dalia Ofer
4. Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families / Natalia Aleksiun
Part II. Intervention of Institutions
5. Siblings in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the "Holocaust Orphan"? / Laura Hobson Faure
6. The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–1949 / Viktória Bányai
7. "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
8. "Return to Normality?": The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany / Anja Reuss
9. "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
10. "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
11. The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia / Helena Sadílková
Acknowledgments
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index
