Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland Combative Remembrance /

• Main Author: Stańczyk, Ewa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Social history.; Historiography.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Social History.; Memory Studies.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland's 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to dictate the tone of t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Three Concepts: Childhood, Emotions, Memory
• 2. Children in World War II: Poland and Beyond
• 3. Pensive Sadness: The Forgotten Children's Camp in Litzmannstadt/Łódź
• 4. Moral Panic: The Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising
• 5. Morbid Pleasure: Children in Death Camps
• 6. Jingoistic Rage: The Kindertransport Memorial in Gdańsk
• 7. Afterword: From Commemorative Enthusiasm to Commemorative Fatigue.