The lost children : reconstructing Europe's families after World War II / Tara Zahra.
2011
HV640.4.E8 Z34 2011 (Mapit)
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The lost children : reconstructing Europe's families after World War II / Tara Zahra.
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ISBN
9780674048249 (alk. paper)
0674048245 (alk. paper)
0674048245 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HV640.4.E8 Z34 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.87083/094
Summary
"Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives ... The lost children ... brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the effort of everyone -- from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers -- to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The quintessential victims of war
Saving the children
A "psychological Marshall Plan"
Renationalizing displaced children
Children as spoils of war in France
Ethnic cleansing and the family in Czechoslovakia
Repatriation and the Cold War
From divided families to a divided Europe.
Saving the children
A "psychological Marshall Plan"
Renationalizing displaced children
Children as spoils of war in France
Ethnic cleansing and the family in Czechoslovakia
Repatriation and the Cold War
From divided families to a divided Europe.