Commemorating The Children Of World War Ii In Poland
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Author | : Ewa Stańczyk |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2019-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030322629 |
This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to dictate the tone of the politics of memory for more than a decade. The book shows that 2001 marked a caesura in Poland’s post-Communist history, as this was when the past took center stage in Polish political life. It argues that during this period a distinct culture of commemoration emerged in Poland – one that was not only governed by what the electorate wanted to hear and see, but also fueled by emotions.
Author | : Roman Hrabar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Children |
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Author | : Jost Hermand |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810112926 |
Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period. Hermand also gives background into the camp's creation and development.
Author | : Martyna Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 9780646570532 |
Author | : H. Jack Mayer |
Publisher | : Long Trail Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 098411131X |
Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.
Author | : Tara Zahra |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0674048245 |
World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe’s lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.
Author | : Jae Cecil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2021-04-28 |
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German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. The book deals with the Polish nuns who tried or actually did save Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War II. There is no partisanship or propaganda in it. Furthermore, the book will help the reader to understand the nature and uniqueness of the Holocaust. Destruction of the Jews was a unique phenomenon of World War II. As Elie Wiesel said: "while not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims." The Jews were totally helpless. They had no country of their own, no government, no representation or the Inter-Allied war councils. They were abandoned by governments, by church hierarchies, by social structures. They were not abandoned by all humanity, though. Thousands upon thousands of individuals in Poland, Greece, Holland, Belgium, France, and Denmark, guided by our Lord's Commandment "love thy neighbor", tried to help although it was always difficult and dangerous. In Nazi dominated Poland any attempt to help a Jew was punishable by death.
Author | : Richard C. Lukas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Janusz Korczak who was in charge of an orphanage in the ghetto, but refused to leave his orphans, and at the head of a contingent of 192 children and 8 staff members, erect, his eyes looking into the distance, held the hands of two children as he led them to the railroad platform where trains took them to certain death.
Author | : Zofia Tokarz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Jan T. Gross |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2019-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780817974732 |
On September 17, 1939, two weeks after the German invasion of Poland, Soviet troops occupied the eastern half of Poland and swiftly imposed a new political and economic order. Following a plebiscite, in early November the area was annexed to the Ukraine and Belorussia. Beginning in the winter of 1939&–40, Soviet authorities deported over one million Poles, many of them children, to various provinces of the Soviet Union. After the German attack on the USSR in summer 1941, the Polish government in exile in London received permission from its new-found ally to organize military units among the Polish deportees and later to transfer Polish civilians to camps in the British-controlled Middle East. There the children were able to attend Polish-run schools.The 120 essays translated here were selected from compositions written by the students of these schools. What makes these documents unique is the perception of these witnesses: a child's eye view of events no adult would consider worth mentioning. In simple language, filled with misspellings and grammatical errors, the children recorded their experiences, and sometimes their surprisingly mature understanding, of the invasion and the Societ occupation, the deportations eastward, and life in the work camps and kolkhozes. The horrors of life in the USSR were vivid memories; privation, hunger, disease, and death had been so frequent that they became accepted commonplaces. Moreover, as the editors point out in their introductory study, these Polish children were not alone in their suffering. All the nationalities that came under Soviet rule shared their fate.