Hidden in Plain Sight: Jewish Children’s Survival in the Occupied Serbian Banat
Drawing on interviews recorded by the Shoah Foundation Institute, this article focuses on the survival of Jewish and half-Jewish children in the German-occupied Serbian Banat between 1941 and 1944. Rather than hide their physical presence or their Jewishness, these children spent the war in an envir...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 424-444 |
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| Summary: | Drawing on interviews recorded by the Shoah Foundation Institute, this article focuses on the survival of Jewish and half-Jewish children in the German-occupied Serbian Banat between 1941 and 1944. Rather than hide their physical presence or their Jewishness, these children spent the war in an environment well-aware of their identity, yet where people turned a blind eye to their Jewishness, even as the children lived in a state of fear and uncertainty. The survivors’ recollections highlight the pivotal role of parents and parental figures; the interaction of age, gender, class, and ethnicity to enable survival; the children’s own limited yet crucial agency; and the subjects’ awareness of the changes in their memory. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy059 |