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On Losing One’s Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung
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On Losing One’s Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung

Elizabeth Heineman
Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, p.284
Berghahn Books, 1
10/01/2017
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvw04gkb.16

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Abstract

On 18 June 1945, a social worker with the Jewish Refugees’ Commission (JRC) typed an entry into the case file of one of her charges, a fourteen-year-old boy named Herbert. Almost exactly six years earlier, Herbert had arrived in the United Kingdom with the Refugee Children’s Movement, known colloquially among German-speaking Jews as the Kindertransport to England. Two items occupied the social worker’s five-line entry. First, the JRC had received word that the child’s parents were alive. They had been liberated in Theresienstadt, and the news was being communicated to Herbert and his older brother, Eric. Second, the boy needed

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