The end of childhood? Jewish childhood and youth from 1900 24th International Summer Academy.

in German:
Das Ende der Kindheit? Jüdische Kindheit und Jugend ab 1900 24. Internationale Sommerakademie

 

The conference is being held in cooperation with the Vienna Lectures. With the National Socialist assumption of power and the “Anschluss” of Austria, children’s worlds, which were mostly described in interviews as being filled with a sense of wellbeing until this time, were shattered in an instant. The end of childhood, the way in which children were specifically affected by racial decrees, flight and expulsion and deportation to ghettos and concentration camps are is experiencing increasing interest among researchers. Therefore several panels are dedicated to this topic. The lectures cover such varying aspects as Kindertransporte from Austria to Scandinavia, children rescued by Christians in Poland by being baptized and hidden, unaccompanied children and young people in displaced persons camps and Jewish youth in Germany and the former Soviet Union from 1945 until today.

in German:
Die Tagung findet in Zusammenarbeit mit den Wiener Vorlesungen statt. Mit der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten und dem „Anschluss“ Österreichs zerbrach die in lebensgeschichtlichen Interviews bis dahin meist als schön erinnerte Kinderwelt schlagartig. Das Ende der Kindheit, die besondere Betroffenheit der Kinder durch rassistische Verordnungen, Flucht und Vertreibung und Deportation in Ghettos und Konzentrationslager stehen zunehmend im Forschungsinteresse, daher sind dem Thema mehrere Panels gewidmet. Die Vorträge umfassen so unterschiedliche Aspekte wie Kindertransporte aus Österreich nach Skandinavien, durch Taufe und Versteck bei Christen gerettete Kinder in Polen, alleinstehende Kinder und Jugendliche in DP-Lagern sowie jüdische Jugendliche in Deutschland und in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion nach 1945 bis zur Gegenwart.

Institute for Austrian Jewish History

in German:
Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs (INJOEST)

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03 Jul 2014

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