Innocent witnesses : childhood memories of World War II /

Innocent witnesses : childhood memories of World War II /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yalom, Marilyn, author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Redwood Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 195 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Europe. World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Personal narratives. Children Europe Personal Narrative Personal narratives Personal narratives.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542297

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Other authors / contributors:	Clayton, Meg Waite, writer of foreword. Yalom, Ben, editor.
ISBN:	9781503614048 1503614042 9781503613652 1503613658
Notes:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2020).
Summary:	"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 Holland. In addition to their recollections, Marilyn Yalom added her own wartime memories-those of an American girl safely protected in Washington, D.C., while bombs dropped on my counterparts abroad"--
Other form:	Print version: Yalom, Marilyn. Innocent witnesses Stanford, California : Redwood Press, [2021] 9781503613652

Table of 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 : Finland's dilemma
Into exile : fleeing Czechoslovakia for England
Fleeing the Nyilas : Hungary's Holocaust
When memory speaks
Epilogue : wartime children as adults.