Research & Inspiration for Once We Were Home
Books (research):
Andlauer, Anna. The Rage to Live. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
Appelfeld, Aharon. The Story of a Life. Schocken Books, 2004.
Bauer, Yehuda. Flight and Rescue: Brichah. Random House, 1970.
Ben-Ze’ev, Efrat. Remembering Palestine in 1948. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Block Lazarus, Joyce. In the Shadow of the Vichy: The Finaly Affair. Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.
Bogner, Nachum. At the Mercy of Strangers: The Rescue of Jewish Children with Assumed Identities in Poland. Yad Vashem, 2009.
Borggräfe, Henning, Akim Jah, Nina Ritz, and Steffen Jost, eds. Freilegungen: Rebuilding Lives: Child Survivors and DP Children in the Aftermath of the Holocaust and Forced Labor. Wallstein Verlag, 2017.
Clifford, Rebecca. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust. Yale University Press, 2020.
Cohen, Boaz. “The Children’s Voice: Postwar Collection of Testimonies from Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, March 2007.
Dwork, Deborah. Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. Yale University Press, 1993.
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors. Penguin, 1988.
Ficowski, Jerzy. Sister of the Birds and Other Gypsy Tales. Translated by Lucia Borski. Abingdon, 1976. Selected from Gałązka z drzewa słońca, Nasza Księgarnia, 1961.
Gigliotti, Simone, and Monica Tempian, eds. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust, and Postwar Displacement. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Grossman, David. The Yellow Wind. Picador, 2002.
—To the End of the Land. Vintage Books, 2001.
Izhar, Neomi. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka: One of the Few: A Resistance Fighter and Educator, 1939–1947, Yad Vashem, 2009.
Kamenetzky, Christa. Children’s Literature in Hitler’s Germany. Ohio University Press, 1984.
Kangisser Cohen, Sharon, Eva Fogelman, and Dalia Ofer, eds. Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath: Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive. Berghahn Books, 2017.
Kertzer, David. “The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives.” The Atlantic, August 27, 2020.
Kofman, Sarah. Rue Ordener, Rue Labat. Translated by Ann Smock. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Küchler-Silberman, Lena. My Hundred Children. Laurel Leaf, 1987.
Lauer, Betty. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish
Teenager’s Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland. Smith & Kraus Global, 2004.
Lukas, Richard. Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–1945, Hippocrene Books, 1994.
Macardle, Dorothy. Children of Europe: A Study of the Children of Liberated Countries; Their War-Time Experiences, Their Reactions, and Their Needs, with a Note on Germany, Hassell St. Press, 2021.
Meyers, Odette. Doors to Madame Marie. University of Washington Press, 1997.
Michlic, Joanna. Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory. New England University Press/Brandeis University Press, 2017.
—Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Survival and Polish-Jewish Relations During the Holocaust as Reflected in Early Postwar Recollection. Yad Vashem, 2008.
— “‘Who Am I?’ The Identity of Jewish Children in
Poland, 1945–1949.” Polin 20, 2007.
Nachmany Gafny, Emunah. Dividing Hearts: The Removal of Jewish Children from Gentile Families in Poland in the Immediate Post Holocaust Years. Yad Vashem, 2009.
Neeman, Yael. We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz, Overlook Duckworth, 2016.
Nicholas, Lynn. Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web. Vintage Books, 2005.
Oz, Amos. A Tale of Love and Darkness. Harcourt, 2005.
Patt, Avinoam. Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press, 2009.
Sereny, Gitta. The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections, Germany, 1938–2001, W. W. Norton, 2001.
Smith, Willa. They Must Be Germans: The Nazi Germanization Program and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1939–1947, Barnard Thesis, 2020.
Stone, I. F. Underground to Palestine. Pantheon Books, 1978.
Szabo, Magda. Abigail. NYRB Classics, 2020.
Valent, Paul. Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Routledge, 2016.
Wylie, I. A. R. “Returning Europe’s Kidnapped Children.” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1946.
Zahra, Tara. The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families After World War II. Harvard University Press, 2011.
Resources:
Jewish Historical Institute Archive
Ghetto Fighters House Archive
Yad Vashem Archive
USC Shoah Foundation, Visual History Archive
Western Galilee Holocaust Studies Program Website: Children of Holocaust, War and Genocide: The Relevance of Post WW2 and the Holocaust for Today’s World.
Amalia Margolin and Oshra Schwartz, directors. My 100 Children, documentary film, 2003
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