NEWEST WORKS
Eva Fogelman and Helene Bass Wichelhaus “The role of group experiences, in the healing process of massive childhood holocaust trauma” Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis 2001.
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 | Bergmann, M and Jucovy, M. (Eds.) Generations of the Holocaust. New York: Basic Books 1982. Buy it here. |
 | Fogelman, Eva Conscience and Courage: The Rescuers of the Jews during the Holocaust. New York: Anchor Books 1997. Buy it here. |
 | Kestenberg, J.S. and Brenner, I. The Last Witness: The Child survivor of the Holocaust.American Psychiatric Press: Washington D.C. 1996. Buy it here. |
 | Kestenberg, J.S. and Fogelman, E. Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process. Westport Conn: Praeger. 1994. Buy it here. |
 | Kestenberg, J.S. and Kahn, C. Children Surviving Persecution: An International Study of Trauma and Healing. 1998 Buy it here. |
SHORT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT BOOKS ON CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST OF WORLD WAR II:
European focus
Works by Other Researchers
Please note we are developing a bibliography of child survivors of other genocides: Check for updates to our site this spring. Also please send your recommendations for inclusions and/or book reviews to our contact page.
Annotated Bibliography – Contents
- A. Diaries and Magazines – Contemporary accounts by children
- B. Accounts from children immediately after the war
- C. Accounts written a few years later
- D. Accounts written as an adult
- E. Varied Sources
- F. Intergenerational Studies
- G. Youth Audience Books
- H. Background materials not focused specifically on child survivors
A. Diaries and Magazines – Contemporary accounts by children
Boas, Jacob. We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died.
Scholastic Press, 1996.
(Youth-oriented writing.)
Holliday, Laurel. Children of the Holocaust and World War II.
Pocket Books, 1996.
(Diaries from camps, cities, and ghettos; includes diaries from Jewish children and Dutch prison-camp children.)
Krisková, Maria. We Are the Children Just the Same: The Secret Magazine by the Boys at TerezĂn.
Jewish Publication Society, 1995.
(Boys aged 13–15 produced the underground magazine “Vedem” in TerezĂn; preserved by a few survivors and newly released from Czech sources.)
B. Accounts from children immediately after the war
Grynberg, Henryk. Children of Zion.
Northwestern University Press, 1997.
(Interviews from 1943 with Polish children in Palestine recalling experiences during the war and exile in Russia; choral presentation rather than single cases; includes issues surrounding release from Soviet work camps under the Sikorski agreement.)
Hochberg-Marianska, Maria, et al., eds. The Children Accuse.
Britain Books, 1996.
(Collected in Poland in 1945; accounts from forests, bunkers, camps, and ghettos; includes non-Jewish children and adult witnesses to children’s experiences.)
C. Accounts written a few years later
Sliwowska, Wiktoria. The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak.
Northwestern University Press, 1998.
(Jewish children in Poland; wide variety of experiences, including pre- and post-war life and accounts of rescuers.)
D. Accounts written as an adult
Interviews at Child Development Research Project.
International Study of Persecution of Children and the Gratz College Collection.
Fisher, Josey, and Rosenthal, eds. Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust. Vol. 32.
Greenwood Press, 1991.
(Fifteen first-person accounts by child survivors: growing up under Nazism; experiences in anti-Nazi German families, gypsy families, Polish Catholic and mixed-marriage families; based on the Gratz College oral-history project; discusses defenses, adaptation, and resilience.)
Hermand, Jost. A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazi Children’s Evacuation Program During World War II.
Northwestern University Press, 1997.
(Author recalls transfer between multiple Nazi youth training camps — often harsh, sometimes nurturing; describes his experiences and those of others.)
Levendel, Isaac. Not the Germans Alone: A Son’s Search for the Truth of Vichy.
Northwestern University Press, 1999.
(Memoir of wartime boyhood in France — loss of parents, and rescue by a peasant family.)
Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children: Secret Survivors of the Holocaust.
Fawcett Books, 1995.
(Twenty-three accounts of adults recalling their experiences of hiding as children.)
Nieuwsman, Milton. Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors.
Holiday House, 1998.
(Three adults recall childhoods in Auschwitz and their return to Poland — including post-war antisemitism.)
E. Varied Sources
Bachrach, Susan. Tell Them We Remember.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994.
(Museum photographs and documents interwoven with individual children’s stories; innovative presentation.)
Baumel, Judith. Unfulfilled Promise: Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the U.S. 1934–45.
I.B. Tauris / Cornell University Press, 1991.
(Examines U.S.-based organizations that received Jewish children sent abroad by families in Germany; discusses logistical and ethical problems in resettlement.)
Gilbert, Martin. The Boys: The Untold Story of 732 Concentration Camp Survivors.
Henry Holt, 1997.
(Testimonies of boys — and some girls under sixteen — later resettled in Britain; interweaves letters and interviews.)
Klarsfeld, Serge. The French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial.
Knopf, 1996.
(Memorial volume on ~12,000 children deported by Vichy; only 300 survived; biographical notices written so they are not forgotten.)
Lukas, Richard & Lukas, John. Did the Children Cry: Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children.
Hippocrene Books, 1994.
(Documents persecution of Polish and Jewish children and their resistance activities.)
Rosenberg, Maxine. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust.
Clarion Books, 1994.
(Narratives of children who survived in hiding.)
Weiss, Winfried. A Nazi Childhood.
Mosaic Press, 2000.
(Adult recollection of growing up within the Nazi system.)
F. Intergenerational Studies
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors.
Penguin, 1988.
Hass, Aaron. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Second Generation.
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
(Adult children describe their relationships with parents who were child survivors.)
Kelson, Hans. Sequential Traumatization in Children.
Gefen Books, 1995.
Prince, Robert. Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychological Trends in the Second Generation.
Other Press, 1999.
Sicher, Efraim. Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz.
University of Illinois Press, 1998.
(Explores how children of survivors in the U.S. and Israel experience remembered history in imagination; multidisciplinary.)
Steinitz, Lucy (ed.). Living After the Holocaust: Reflections by Children of Survivors in America.
Bloch Publishing, 1996.
Tauber, Yvonne. In the Other Chair: Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation as Therapists and Patients.
Gefen, 1999.
Rosenthal, Gabriele. The Holocaust in Three Generations: Families of Victims and Perpetrators of the Nazi Regime.
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1998.
(Five family cases based on interviews and observations in Israel and Germany; traces transmission of memory across generations.)
Wardi, Dina. Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust.
Tavistock, 1992.
(Clinical work on identity and self-integration among children of survivors.)
G. Youth Audience Books
Anflick, Charles. Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny.
Rosen Publishing, 1999.
(Part of a youth series including volumes “In the Ghetto” and “In the Camps”.)
Fox, Anne. Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport.
Behrman House, 1998.
(Author is a Kindertransport child.)
Greenfield, Howard. Hidden Children.
Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
(Accounts of children in hiding during the war; survivor guilt, shame, historical context, and aftermath.)
Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to War: 8 True Life Stories.
Penguin, 2000.
(British journalist interviews child survivors; includes experiences of Germanization, camps, ghettos, Poles, Czechs, Roma.)
Mochizuki, Ken. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
Lee & Low Books, 1997.
(Told from the son’s perspective; the Japanese diplomat who issued visas against orders and saved thousands.)
Rubin, Susan. Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of TerezĂn.
Holiday House, 2000.
(An artist fosters children’s artmaking inside the camp.)
Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Vol. I.
Random House, 1986.
(Graphic narrative of the Holocaust and its impact on the author as son of survivors.)
H. Background materials not focused specifically on child survivors
Braham, Randolph L. The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944.
Rudolf Loewenstein Institute, 1999.
(Includes one chapter on the Roma; remainder on Jewish persecution.)
Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany.
Gallaudet University Press, 1999.
(Based on 1,000 interviews with deaf survivors of sterilization and persecution; examines teacher collaboration.)
Engel, David. Facing the Holocaust: The Polish Government in Exile and the Jews.
University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
(Argues anti-Jewish sentiment in the Sikorski government was counterbalanced by hopes of U.S. Jewish advocacy.)
Friedländer, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide.
University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
(Examines euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped as precursor to later genocide; includes cases of child murder.)
Hoffman, Eva. Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews.
Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Heger, Heinz. The Man with the Pink Triangle: The True Life and Death Stories of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps.
Alyson Publications, 1985.
Rosenberg, Otto. A Gypsy in Auschwitz.
Capital Books, 1999.
Wolff, Marion. The Shrinking Circle: Memories of Nazi Berlin, 1933–1939.
UAHC Press, 1998.