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Author Zahra, Tara, author.

Title The lost children : reconstructing Europe's families after World War II / Tara Zahra
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011

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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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Subject Refugee children -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
War victims -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Families -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Families
Refugee children
Social aspects
War victims
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Electronic resource.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674061378
0674061373
Other Titles Reconstructing Europe's families after World War II