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Record Nr.

UNISA996545360503316

Autore

Kiss Judit

Titolo

More Nights Than Days : A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

963-386-619-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages)

Disciplina

364.15109253

Soggetti

Genocide survivors

Children - Crimes against

Holocaust survivors' writings

Children's writings

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1. The Children's Books -- 2. Persecution -- 3. Coping: Refuges and Escape Routes -- 4. The Aftermath: Surviving Survival -- 5. The Next Generation -- Surviving -- Aftermaths -- The Children. Biographical Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

Sommario/riassunto

"More Nights Than Days is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust-including Roma and Sinti victims-and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a range of coping techniques adults don't possess.This overview of writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence from a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic and stirringly expressive. Yudit Kiss has not written a historical study or literary



criticism of the children's books. She explores, instead, what the authors went through and what they felt and understood about their experience. An accessible and captivating reading, this volume presents a close-up, human size dimension of the destruction. The books written by child survivors also describe the resources and means that helped them to remain human even in the deepest well of inhumanity, offering precious lessons about resistance and resilience"--