Child Survivors in Deutschland

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
Kurt Grünberg ◽  
Friedrich Markert
Keyword(s):  
Child Survivors ◽  
Child Survivor

Die Child Survivors, deren seelische Entwicklung am nachhaltigsten von der Nazi-Verfolgung geprägt und beschädigt wurde, werden oftmals noch heute nicht wahrgenommen und anerkannt. Während Tilo Held in der Zeitschrift Psyche (8/2014) über eben diese Gruppe erklärte, »die Zeit ihrer Implikation in Forschungsprojekte ist vorbei«, widmen sich die Autoren mit ihrer Forschungsarbeit den psychosozialen Spätfolgen der Verfolgung der Child Survivors und postulieren eine vierte Sequenz des traumatischen Prozesses im Alter. Anhand der Auseinandersetzung mit Child-Survivor-Tagungen im Jahr 2014 in Berlin werden Mikroprozesse des Szenischen Erinnerns der Shoah dargestellt, die sich sowohl auf die Trauma-Tradierung als auch auf zentrale Konflikte im deutsch-jüdischen Verhältnis im post-nationalsozialistischen Deutschland beziehen, wie sie sich auch im Forschungsprojekt des jüdischen Psychoanalytikers in Deutschland mit seinem nicht-jüdisch-deutschen Kollegen zugetragen haben. Das Einbrechen des Szenischen Erinnerns der Shoah in die Forschungsbeziehung wird als Manifestation einer konträren Holocaust Imagery verstanden. Einige Fallvignetten illustrieren das »Szenische Erinnern der Shoah« der Child Survivors.

Childhood Perspectives of the Holocaust in Jurek Becker’s “The Wall” and “The Invisible City,” and Frank Beyer’s film While All Germans Are Sleeping

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Delene Case White
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Child Survivor ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Fictional Representations ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone ◽  
The Invisible

Abstract At the age of eight, Polish-Jewish child survivor Jurek Becker settled with his father in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Berlin, later becoming a professional writer in the German Democratic Republic. He left after a series of protests by artists and intellectuals against the expatriation of dissident singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, and took up residence in the Federal Republic of Germany. The author of the present study addresses Becker’s short story “Die Mauer” (The Wall) and testimonial essay “Die unsichtbare Stadt” (The Invisible City), along with Frank Beyer’s 1991 film Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen (While All Germans Are Sleeping), based on “The Wall.” In particular, the author analyzes all three works in relation to other fictional representations of the Holocaust and discourses of childhood, imagination, and play. It draws on M.M. Bakhtin’s theories of narrative strategy and Johan Huizinga’s ideas about the “ludic element” (essentially, play) needed to survive totalitarian systems such as Nazism, to argue for valuing such works as important expressions by child survivors.

Using a Multisectoral Approach in Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Lessons from a Zimbabwean Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Muridzo ◽  
Victor Chikadzi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Integrated Service Delivery ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Areas Of Concern

Child sexual abuse is one of the prevalent social ills that affect children in Zimbabwe. In response to the problem of child sexual abuse and the need to mitigate its adverse effects, Zimbabwe established the Victim Friendly System. The Victim Friendly System is a multisectoral forum made up of social workers, medical doctors, nurses, the police force and role players within the justice system such as magistrates, prosecutors, counsellors, educationists and psychologists. These professionals offer distinctive but complementary interventions to child survivors of child sexual abuse. This paper discusses the merits and lessons gleaned from using the Victim Friendly System as a multisectoral forum to tackle child sexual abuse. In researching this phenomenon, the study adopted a qualitative approach and data were collected from 38 participants and 4 key informants selected using theoretical and purposive sampling respectively. A total of 300 court files of child sexual abuse cases were also reviewed. The findings that emerged from the study show that a multisectoral approach to dealing with child sexual abuse provides the benefit of integrated service delivery. Improved outcomes for victims of sexual abuse as well as streamlined, effective and efficient operations for organisations that form part of the Victim Friendly System were also evident. This notwithstanding, the paper also discusses some areas of concern that could potentially affect how the Victim Friendly System multisectoral arrangement works. The lessons that emerged from the study provide some insights that are useful in informing guidelines for multisectoral arrangements.

Child Survivors of the Holocaust — Strategies of Adaptation

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 384-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Krell
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Nazi Persecution ◽  
Post War ◽  
Over 40 Years

Child survivors have only recently been recognized as a developmentally distinct group with psychological experiences different from older survivors. The wartime circumstances of Nazi persecution caused enforced separation from family and friends, and all the survivors experienced persecution in the form of physical and emotional abuse, starvation and degradation, and were witnesses to cruelty. This paper is based on information from interviews and therapy with 25 child survivors, the majority of whom were not patients. Coping strategies are discussed in terms of their survival value in wartime and post-war adaptive value. Three themes which reverberate throughout the lives of child survivors, now adults, are discussed in greater detail: bereavement, memory and intellect. The fact that the majority of child survivors live normal and creative lives provides an opportunity to learn what factors have served them over 40 years, to provide the resilience and strength to cope after such a shattering beginning.

Mental health and quality of life survey among child survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 1381-1391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaobao Jia ◽  
Wenhua Tian ◽  
Xiang He ◽  
Weizhi Liu ◽  
Chunlin Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Sichuan Earthquake
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