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Child Holocaust Survivors: Memories and Reflections Paperback – October 16, 2008

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This book of essays on Child Holocaust Survivors provides insights about the nature of survival, the impact of massive trauma and loss in childhood, and the lifelong consequences of such experiences, including the remarkable resilience of children.
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    October 16, 2008
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trafford Publishing (October 16, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1425137202
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1425137205
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.43 x 8.5 inches
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Julia Berg
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Children of the Holocaust - Tell your stories!
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014
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This is a collection of Hidden Child speeches Robert has done all over the world. He tells his story with detail that you will fell empathy. Some stories brought tears to my eyes. I think his stories have allowed many hidden children survivors now be able to tell their stories. The telling is a healthy outlet for so much that has been hidden for so long. Robert indicates to embrace the partial memories too. They are all important.
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Eva M. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Child Holocaust Survivors: Memories and reflections: Review by "Eva Metzger Brown" Ph.D., ABPP
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2008
I am delighted to review the second edition of this excellent, moving and insightful book on child survivor experience. Dr. Robert Krell, a psychiatrist and child survivor of the Holocaust from Holland, gathered these papers, mostly given at the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust meetings (Gatherings) between 1983-2005. Chapters include the work of Dr. Sarah Moskovitz, a developmental psychologist, known by many as the "mother" of the child survivor field, Professor Elie Wiesel, a world known child survivor, author and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in l986, Dr. Haim Dasberg, psychotherapist and child survivor from Israel and Professor Martin Gilbert, a historian. Additionally, there are five new papers by Dr. Krell, added to those published previously.

Though written originally for child survivor gatherings, these first hand accounts and insights of child survivor experiences are also important reading for survivors' families, historians, and professionals in the psychotherapeutic field as well as world leaders who continue to deal with new eruptions of genocide in the world everyday. These essays recognize not only the depth and complexity of early psychic trauma, but also the strength, endurance and courage it takes to survive and succeed in a new world. As the authors point out, child survivors' stories of suffering went unnoticed, unrecognized and unheard for decades. Only with the work of these pioneers was the silence of the child survivor broken and their stories told, valued and understood paving the way for healing to begin.

As Krell points out, the gatherings of Child Survivors began to take place in l981, fully thirty-six years after World War II ended. Prior to that time, child survivors were not only largely silent but also most often isolated from one another. Dr. Krell details, usefully, the history of the development of Child Survivor meetings and the functions of those meetings. These meetings provided the child survivor with a group (a "family") and an audience - each other, with whom to share their history of childhood loss and childhood hiding...in attics, holes in the ground, forests, orphanages, attics and the like. Child Survivor Meetings would become a place where child survivors could gather with people who would "understand," empathize and care about what had happened to them.

Sarah Moskovitz talks of the "journey" of so many of the child survivors: the sense of wonder of having survived at all, the efforts to create continuity for their future generations and the frequency with which child survivors entered the "helping" professions. She was one of the first to recognize not only the extreme trauma that child survivors had undergone, but also their resilience, courage and endurance.

Elie Wiesel, shares his wisdom on the importance of telling one's story to the world, not only because it is important to tell what happened, but also because it is essential to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves. "Other Jewish children could not find hiding places." But for those who survived, he encourages the child survivor to think not only in terms of fear and sadness, but also in terms of "joy and hope and gratitude."

Haim Dasberg weaves the themes of the "lost childhood of child survivors," his own included, with their desire to "belong" and find "a common ground." These are all themes with which child survivors can identify and themes that professionals need to hear and understand.

Professor Gilbert, speaking as a historian, emphasizes the importance of "Not Forgetting." He strongly encourages child survivors to write down and record their memories so that their history can be distributed as widely as possible. Only in this way can the child survivor help others "Not To Forget."

The new essays from Dr. Krell focus on the aging of child survivors, as they enter their final years and confront the losses that come with old age. He reminds the reader that there can be a recrudescence of memories of earlier times, times of traumatic losses and fears. He discusses the question of rage and wisely, suggests that one act it out not within the family. His message is that survivors have a mission. It is to take the rage of the past and transform it into a voice for good. He advises child survivors to tell their story to their children and to pay attention to the words used by the media and political leaders; the task for child survivors is to become watchdogs for new genocides as they arise. Ending on a positive note, he states, "We are the remnant (those of us who survived) that serves as a reminder as to what is possible. And we remember and we know. Everything is possible - even Peace."

In my opinion, this book is a must read if you want to understand the experience of childhood Holocaust trauma better. Reading it will enrich your life and the understanding of aspects of your own life's traumas...and silences.

The reviewer, Eva Metzger Brown, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and author, as well as a child survivor from Nurnberg, Germany. (embrown13@comcast.net)
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Irvin D. Yalom
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing the hidden children out of hiding
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2008
Robert Krell's volume, Child Holocaust Survivors, containing his own essays and several by other distinguished writers and observers is compelling and unforgettable. In extraordinary fashion it sheds light on the tormented young lives spent hidden in attics or as impostors passing as Christian children. More than any book i know it illuminates the Nazi campaign to murder Jewish children. I recommend it highly.
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