| Description |
195 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Europe.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Personal narratives.
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HISTORY / World.
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Children. (OCoLC)fst00854835
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Author |
Clayton, Meg Waite, writer of foreword.
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Yalom, Ben, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Yalom, Marilyn. Innocent witnesses Stanford : Redwood Press, [2021] 9781503614048 (DLC) 2020026965 |
| ISBN |
9781503613652 (cloth) |
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1503613658 (cloth) |
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9781503614048 (epub) |
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