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Innocent witnesses : childhood memories of World War II

Innocent witnesses : childhood memories of World War II

Yalom, Marilyn, author.
Book 2021

"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. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holl...

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World War, 1939-1945 Children Europe
World War, 1939-1945 Europe Personal narratives
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ISBN:
9781503613652
Description:
xx, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 : a Finnish family's odyssey
Into exile : fleeing Czechoslovakia for England
Fleeing the Nyilas : Hungary's Holocaust
When memory speaks
Epilogue : wartime children as adults
LCCN:
2020026964
Control Number:
3032429
Other Authors:
Clayton, Meg Waite, writer of foreword
Yalom, Ben, editor
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