Children of the Holocaust

by Paul R. Bartrop, Eve E. Grimm

Overview

This important reference work highlights a number of disparate themes relating to the experience of children during the Holocaust, showing their vulnerability and how some heroic people sought to save their lives amid the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi regime.

This book is a comprehensive examination of the people, ideas, movements, and events related to the experience of children during the Holocaust. They range from children who kept diaries to adults who left memoirs to others who risked (and, sometimes, lost) their lives in trying to rescue Jewish children or spirit them away to safety in various countries. The book also provides examples of the nature of the challenges faced by children during the years before and during World War II. In many cases, it examines the very act of children's survival and how this was achieved despite enormous odds.

In addition to more than 125 entries, this book features 10 illuminating primary source documents, ranging from personal accounts to Nazi statements regarding what the fate of Jewish children should be to statements from refugee leaders considering how to help Jewish children after World War II ended. These documents offer fascinating insights into the lives of students during the Holocaust and provide students and researchers with excellent source material for further research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216059851
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Paul R. Bartrop, PhD, is an award-winning Holocaust and genocide scholar and professor of history and director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Eve E. Grimm is an Australian lawyer with advanced qualifications in law.
Paul R. Bartrop is Professor Emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is the author and co-author of several books, including Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016), Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses (2014) and Genocide: The Basics (2014). He is also the co-editor, with Michael Dickerman, of the award-winning four-volume The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (2017) and Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016).
Professor Bartrop is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies and in 2022 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom.
Eve E. Grimm was formerly a Senior Advisor to the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA. A lawyer with advanced qualifications in law, after a working life in government service as a senior attorney she has written about the German legal profession during the Nazi period and the Holocaust. Having formerly taught in the School of Law at Monash University, Melbourne, she was one of the legal team that provided comment on the State of Victoria's racial vilification legislation and was for many years a member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia, during which she prepared numerous briefs relating to antisemitism. Her published work has appeared in the journal Without Prejudice, and she was a key contributor to The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (2017). In 2022 she co-authored (with Paul R. Bartrop) The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide, joining two other books co-authored with Paul Bartrop in 2019: Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators and Children of the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

List of Entries
List of Primary Source Documents
Preface
Introduction
Entries
Primary Source Documents
Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Often chilling, sometimes inspiring, inexpressibly moving, this volume … provides an essential record for all readers interested in history, morality, politics, and human nature.” —Library Jourbanal Starred Review

From the Publisher

★ 01/01/2021

Genocide scholar and history professor Bartrop, and lawyer and Holocaust consultant Grimm follow their collaboration, Perpetrating the Holocaust, with a wrenching consideration of children during the Holocaust—sufferers, survivors, perpetrators, and protectors (women, men, adolescents). A preface and introduction establish the context and the taxonomy of "vulnerability," "morality," and "rescue." Further reading follows each entry; 10 wide-ranging primary documents (personal and political, each with brief introductions and commentary) are appended. Almost 75 entries focus on individuals, several others on institutions or places, and the rest on such specifics as Hitler Youth, circumcision, border crossing, smuggling, liberation, medical experimentation, diaries, and more. The clear, balanced entries reflect the widely differing backgrounds of those who tried to help Jews, and the tragedy of children lost to starvation, cold, overwork, disease, experimentation, or extermination. Among the rescuers are an Indian maharaja and a woman, recognized only posthumously, who saved more than 15,000 children in Yugoslavia; among the victims, Afro-German children; among the murderers, a doctor who evaded responsibility for 20 years and died unrepentant after only 14 months in prison. VERDICT Often chilling, sometimes inspiring, inexpressibly moving, this volume, while not comprehensive, provides an essential record for all readers interested in history, morality, politics, and human nature.—Patricia D. Lothrop, formerly of St. George's Sch., Newport, RI

Library Journal