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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