This talk examines the expressed emotions of European Jewish children who experienced familial separation during the Nazi years. In so doing it will focus on the largely central European Jewish youth who had been brought to the United States through various child migration programs, as well as ad-hoc efforts to bring individual Jewish youth to America, that lasted for much of the duration of the Nazi regime. The voiced emotions of unaccompanied refugee youth, I will demonstrate, carry the potential to shed new light on age, emotions, agency, and the writing of Holocaust history.
Daniella Doron is a senior lecturer in Jewish History at Monash University, Her first book, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation came out in 2015 with Indiana University Press. Her research fields include French history, the history of childhood, gender and the family, and modern Jewish history. For this talk she will be discussing a selection from her newest book project, recently funded by a ARC Discovery Project grant, entitled Feeling Familial Separation: Emotions, Agency, and Holocaust Refugee Youth.
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