03627nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-67141-8 DE-He213 20251030112934.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240903s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031671418 978-3-031-67141-8 10.1007/978-3-031-67141-8 doi D731-838 HBWQ bicssc HIS027100 bisacsh NHWR7 thema Spicer, Ellis. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 83617 Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Britain [electronic resource] : Community and Belonging / by Ellis Spicer. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 255 p. 8 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. Decisions -- 3. Rehabilitation -- 4. Distraction -- 5. Community -- 6. Activism -- 7. Conclusion. My late father was one of 732 young holocaust survivors who arrived in the Uk in 1945.Most of these children had lost their entire families and endured imaginable suffering and loss.The group became known as the ‘Boys’ although 180 were girls! In 1965 they started the 45 Aid society with 3 missions , to look after each other, teach the lessons of the Holocaust, and to give back to their adopted country, that they were internally grateful to. Ellis Spicer’s powerful story of the ‘Boys” holds important lessons for shaping a better future.—Angela Cohen MBE Chair of 45 Aid society This book pays particular attention to the experiences of younger child survivors of the Holocaust, considering how they kept in touch with one another, and how they integrated into larger cohorts of survivors settling in postwar Britain. Digging deeper than ever before into their postwar circumstances exposes the process of rebuilding shattered lives and the evolution of community relations, including both the beneficial and re-traumatising effects engendered by these networks. Newly conducted interviews put the experiences of younger survivors centre stage. These individuals did not receive much attention or status as survivors until the 1990s, and whilst they represent the most active cohort of survivor speakers in the UK, their narratives and community relations have been markedly absent from academic study. Ellis Spicer is an affiliate of the Centre for the History of War, Media and Society at the University of Kent, UK. World War, 1939-1945. 67816 Great Britain History. 66701 History, Modern. 70351 Oral history. Collective memory. 68201 History of World War II and the Holocaust. 67818 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 Modern History. 70352 Oral History. Memory Studies. 68202 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031671401 Printed edition: 9783031671425 Printed edition: 9783031671432 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67141-8 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 63066 63066