Family histories of World War II : survivors and descendants /
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Exploring the Transmission of Wartime Memories / RoÌ?isiÌ?n Healy and GearoÌ?iÌ?d Barry (both NUI Galway, Ireland)
- Part I
- Lives in Uniform: Enduring Combat and Captivity
- 1. Nothing Spectacular to Remember? Dealing with Wartime Memories in a German Family / Hans-Walter Schmidt Hannisa
- 2. The Returning POW and a Wartime Volunteer: A Love Story / Sheena Fennell
- 3. Educating Friends and Enemies: An Irishman's Experiences in Wartime Britain / Patricia Scully
- 4. Perseverance in the Face of Life's Adversities: The Diary of an Italian Officer in Nazi Concentration Camps / Maria Ansaldo
- 5. The American from the Sky: A Story of an Italian Family Rescue from the Wehrmacht / Maureen Maloney and Colleen Williamson
- 6. Witnessing the Horrors of War: An Irishman's Experiences from El Alamein to Bergen-Belsen / Ciara Boylan
- 7. Recording the War in Connemara: A Guyanese Sailor in the Eastern Mediterranean / Cormac Loideìn
- Part II
- Lives under Siege: Coping with Occupation
- 8. A Spanish Communist in the French Resistance: Uncle Luis and a German Map / Sara Farrona
- 9. A Boy in Small-Town Germany from Home Front to Allied Occupation / Hermann Rasche
- 10. A Child's View of War: Nazi Occupation, Resistance, and Civil War in North-Eastern Italy, 1943-45 / Enrico Dal Lago
- 11. A Greek Tragedy: A Small Village at War / Constantinos G. Efthymiou
- 12. The Greenberg Sisters: A Leningrad Story Told from Afar / Irina Ruppo
- 13. Slave Labour and Its Legacies: My Maternal Grandparents' Journey from Ukraine to Germany to Belgium / Sylvie Mossay