Description |
1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) |
Contents |
The quintessential victims of war -- Saving the children -- A "psychological Marshall Plan" -- Renationalizing displaced children -- Children as spoils of war in France -- Ethnic cleansing and the family in Czechoslovakia -- Repatriation and the Cold War -- From divided families to a divided Europe |
Summary |
"Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives ... The lost children ... brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the effort of everyone -- from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers -- to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity"--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-301) and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Refugee children -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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War victims -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Families -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Families
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Refugee children
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Social aspects
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War victims
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic resource.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780674061378 |
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0674061373 |
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