Versteckt: Jüdische Kinder im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und ihr Leben danach. Interpretationen biographischer Interviews

Analyzes the experiences of five Jews who, as children, were hidden by non-Jews in Germany during World War II: Erika Koschinski (Israel); Harry Young (USA); and Lore Frühling, Lara Schwarz, and Jürgen Haverkamp (Germany). The subjects mentioned their pain and their ambivalent feelings toward Germans and toward their parents, who they felt had abandoned them. Contends that there is no "typical hidden child", and that surviving in hiding is a very individual experience. Discusses difficulties in the relationships between the children and their rescuers. States that the murder of or threat to relatives was almost as traumatic for the children as their own persecution. Concludes that society, as well as individual contacts, can help alleviate the effects of the trauma of having been hidden, and that former hidden children who survived in the midst of non-Jewish Germans, having learned to deal with ambivalent or conflicting loyalties, are more competent in approaching non-Jews than other Holocaust survivors.