Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Holocaust was perhaps the most infamous and traumatic event of the Twentieth century and it seared itself into the consciousness of the world but some survivors find themselves in the strange position of having no memory of the events which they lived through. As the years pass, our connection with the Holocaust fades with the passing of each survivor. Indeed many of the surviving witnesses to the Holocaust were children many of whom were too young to remember or understand what went on. This has often been a painful, bewildering experience and for many of these child survivors, it has led to a lifelong quest to seek understanding of and connection with the communities and family members they lost. Dr Rebecca Clifford, herself related to a childhood survivor, joins Dan to explain the research she has been conducting into the lives of childhood Holocaust survivors. She and Dan explore some of their stories, the huge impact the trauma has had on their lives, whether it's possible to find closure, Rebecca's own personal journey through this subject and how to make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Nose History Age. We're talking about the Holocaust today,
0:03.8	we're talking about particular group people who live through the Holocaust, and bizarrely,
0:07.4	many of them don't really remember it, that's because they were children. They were infants,
0:10.8	babies sometimes, and what does that mean to live through a genocide?
0:14.4	Live through the Holocaust, and so to be a survivor, but to have no recollection of it.
0:19.6	Do you search for that history? Do you hide it out?
0:21.7	Try and work out what happened to you? Or do you let it lie?
0:25.5	While Rebecca Clifford is an associate professor of modern European history at
0:29.6	Swansea University, and she's author of a couple of books on the Holocaust, including survivors,
0:36.4	children's lives after the Holocaust. It was shortlisted for the Wilson History Prize in 2021,
0:42.1	and I just couldn't resist inviting her on the podcast to talk about this.
0:47.6	If you want to listen to other podcasts on the Holocaust, we've got plenty of them.
0:51.2	We've got the story of the remarkable man who volunteered to get to Auschwitz to provide
0:56.0	intelligence in Auschwitz. We've got the story of the father and son team again, that son
1:00.7	volunteered to go to Auschwitz to try and keep his father, which he succeeded in doing.
1:06.2	Not Mary Fulbrook with her gigantic survey of the Holocaust, truly one of the most
1:10.7	interesting conversations I've ever had in this podcast. They're all available at HistoryHitTV.
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1:30.8	history documentaries, hundreds and hundreds of history documentaries, and all of
1:34.0	different periods. Stone Age to nuclear age, go and check it out, everybody. I met some of
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