Innocent witnesses : childhood memories of World War II /

This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yalom, Marilyn (Author)
Other Authors: Clayton, Meg Waite (writer of foreword.), Yalom, Ben (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Redwood Press, Stanford University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • A sheltered vision : my American girlhood and French connection
  • Resistance : inside France's "free zone"
  • Under German occupation : the brutal winters of Normandy
  • Within the war machine : a Nazi childhood
  • Against two enemies : Finland's dilemma
  • Into exile : fleeing Czechoslovakia for England
  • Fleeing the Nyilas : Hungary's Holocaust
  • When memory speaks
  • Epilogue : wartime children as adults.