More Nights Than Days : A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiss, Judit.

Contributor:

Opening the Future, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide survivors.

Children--Crimes against.

Children.

Holocaust survivors' writings.

Children's writings.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Kiss Yudit : Yudit Kiss is an independent economic researcher and author. She was born and educated in Budapest, Hungary and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Karl Marx University of Economics (at present Corvinus University of Budapest) and has worked in Hungary, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Summary:

"More Nights Than Days is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust-including Roma and Sinti victims-and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a range of coping techniques adults don't possess.This overview of writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence from a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic and stirringly expressive. Yudit Kiss has not written a historical study or literary criticism of the children's books. She explores, instead, what the authors went through and what they felt and understood about their experience. An accessible and captivating reading, this volume presents a close-up, human size dimension of the destruction. The books written by child survivors also describe the resources and means that helped them to remain human even in the deepest well of inhumanity, offering precious lessons about resistance and resilience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

1. The Children's Books

2. Persecution

3. Coping: Refuges and Escape Routes

4. The Aftermath: Surviving Survival

5. The Next Generation

Surviving

Aftermaths

The Children. Biographical Notes

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-72085-4

963-386-619-7

9781003720850

OCLC:

1384453979