Holocaust Memory/Kristallnacht Commemoration (In Person & Online) Fragments of Memory: Lost Notebooks of Children’s Testimonies from the Holocaust

Event Cosponsored by HHREC

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In 1945, a group of survivors in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp opened several schools for the growing number of orphaned and displaced children at the camp. To help their young charges heal, the teachers encouraged them to write and speak about their traumatic wartime experiences. Recently uncovered notebooks of child testimonies together with fragmentary archival collections scattered across multiple repositories tell the story of this early documentary effort. Join Dr. Regina Kazyulina and Dr. Christopher Mauriello, Directors of Salem State University’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, for a discussion about this history and the teachers who did everything in their power, despite their own wartime traumas, to ensure the children’s stories and voices would not be forgotten.