Freilegungen : rebuilding lives : child survivors and DP children in the aftermath of the Holocaust and forced labor / edited by Henning Borggräfe, Akim Jah, Nina Ritz and Steffen Jost ; in collaboration with Elisabeth Schwabauer.

Papers presented at an interantional conference held at the Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum in Dachau between May 30 and June 1, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreward / by Floriane Hohenberg -- Foreword / by Nina Ritz -- Rebuilding lives : introduction / Henning Borggräfe, Akim Jah and Elisabeth Schwabauer -- New findings on the history of child survivors and DP children -- Child survivors and displaced children in the "aftermath studies" : an overview / Verena Buser -- "Everywhere where human beings are, we can find our children" : on the organization of the ITS "child search branch" and its predecessor / Julia Reus. -- "More children are to be interviewed" : child survivors' narratives in the Child Search Branch files / Susanne Urban -- "They did not want any more Jews there" : the fate of Jewish orphans in Podhale, 1945 - 1946 / Karolina Panz -- International families? : community living in the IRO children's village Bad Aibling, 1948 - 1951 / Christian Höschler -- "Shattered by mental and physical strain" : the treatment and assimilation of "defective" child survivors / Mary Fraser Kirsh -- Polish and soviet child forced labourers in National Socialist Germany and German-occupied Eastern Europe, 1939 - 1945 / Johannes-Dieter Steinert -- "The advantages of repatriation do not offset the trauma of a removal" : IRO welfare workers and the problem of Ukrainian unaccompanied children in German foster families / Olga Gnydiuk -- Soviet displaced persons and the politics of family reunification in the USSR, 1939 - 1991 : research agenda and perspectives / Kelsey Norris -- Interdisciplinary analysis of Hungarian Jewish displaced persons and children using the ITS Digital Archive / Ildikó Barna -- Educational approaches towards the history of displaced persons -- More than a marginal note : displaced persons as a topic of history education at the Max Mannheimer Study Center / Steffen Jost and Nina Rabuza -- Life after the liberation displaced persons in Bergen-Belsen, 1945-1950 as a topic for educational work / Nicola Schlichting -- A closer look teaching Jewish experiences of displacement through photography / Katharina Erbe -- JDC Archives online educational resources about displaced persons and child survivors / Linda G. Levi -- Rebuilding lives : reflections and perspectives -- Research on child Holocaust survivors and displaced persons goals and challenges / Boaz Cohen -- Jewish survivors : notes on entangled stories and lost memories / Atina Grossmann.