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EPISODE · Jan 12, 2025 · 36 MIN

Forgotten Voices: The Children of World War II

from History and Hearsay · host Christina

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing  the children of WWIITimestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:26 - Children during the Holocaust3:52 - Non-Jewish Children4:34 - Medical Experiments 7:52 - Disabled Children10:36 - Kindertransport13:23 - British Evacuees19:44 - Going into Hiding24:34 - Death Toll & After Effects of the War28:54 - Surviving Children30:23 - Wolfskinder - Wolf Children35:18 - Final Thoughts  ►Sources:https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/girl-concentration-camp-disturbed-children-1948/https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/david-seymour-children-of-europe/https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/life-in-shadows-hidden-children-and-the-holocaust https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60517https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60519 https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn59520 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/kindertransport/#:~:text=The Kindertransport was a British,children from Nazi occupied territories https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-evacuated-children-of-the-second-world-war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_children https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12094836/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1466-7657.2002.00110.x https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-evacuated-children-of-the-second-world-war https://www.dw.com/en/german-wolf-children-the-forgotten-orphans-of-wwii/a-41214994 https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/fate-of-children/the-fate-of-the-children/ https://www.histsem.uni-kiel.de/en/das-institut-1/abteilungen/russian-and-eastern-european-history/research-projects/history-of-childhood/german-orphans-in-eastern-europe-after-the-second-world-war-1#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20war,in%20foster%20and%20adoptive%20families https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/files/714-residential-treatment-and-the-invention-of-thehttps://commons.erau.edu/genocide-conference/2020/video/10/ Support the show

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