LEADER 03894nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910457778403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06137-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061378 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048083 035 $a(EBL)3300976 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340664 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567486 035 $a(PQKB)10973376 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300976 035 $a(DE-B1597)178263 035 $a(OCoLC)754842171 035 $a(OCoLC)979777336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061378 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496852 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048083 100 $a20110103d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lost children$b[electronic resource] $ereconstructing Europe's families after World War II /$fTara Zahra 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04824-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe quintessential victims of war -- Saving the children -- A "psychological Marshall Plan" -- Renationalizing displaced children -- Children as spoils of war in France -- Ethnic cleansing and the family in Czechoslovakia -- Repatriation and the Cold War -- From divided families to a divided Europe. 330 $aDuring the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families, and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civilization itself. Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations proclaimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara Zahra demonstrates that they defined the "best interests" of children in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized individuals and the peace and stability of Europe.Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone-from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers-to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riveting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today's wars and in the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee policies. 606 $aRefugee children$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWar victims$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aFamilies$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRefugee children$xHistory. 615 0$aWar victims$xHistory. 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects. 676 $a362.87083/094 700 $aZahra$b Tara$0512200 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457778403321 996 $aThe lost children$92376279 997 $aUNINA