Stargardt - Witnesses of war : childrens lives under the Nazis

Childrens Lives under the Nazis

NICHOLAS STARGARDT

JONATHAN CAPE
London

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Endpapers Kalman Landau, aged 16: From home to the camp and Roll-call, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine, Zurich).

1. Karin Isolde Lehmann, Black Forest: Home, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Hartmut Lehmann).

2. Hugo R.: About the Jews, November 1938 (reproduced courtesy of Museen der Stadt Nrnberg).

3. Building models in the Hitler Youth, 1942 (reproduced courtesy of Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin).

4. Bombs on Coventry: cover of weekly publication for German youth (reproduced courtesy of Randall Bytwerk, German Progaganda Archive; http://www.calvin.edu/cas/gpa/).

5. German children entering an air raid shelter early in the war, (akg-images/Ullsteinbild).

6. Polish childs drawing of taking refuge in the cellar (reproduced courtesy of Sauvegarde, FebruaryMarch 1949).

7. Krzysztof Aleksander, Czstochowa: Night raid (reproduced courtesy of Przekrj, 2430 March 1946).

8. Aleksandra abanowska, Inowroclaw: Mummys sad memories from Ravensbrck (reproduced courtesy of Przekrj, 713 April 1946).

9. S. Kwiatkowski, Warsaw: Execution (reproduced courtesy of Przekrj, 713 April 1946).

10. German camp for Polish children in d (reproduced courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

11. Jewish children playing at ghetto policemen, d ghetto, photographed by Henryk Ross (reproduced courtesy of the Archive of Modern Conflict).

12. Jewish children playing on Krochmalna Street in the Warsaw ghetto (reproduced courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

13. Liliane Franklov, Theresienstadt ghetto: Soup kitchen (reproduced courtesy of the Jewish Museum, Prague).

14. Ilona Weissov, Theresienstadt ghetto: Entrance to fantasy land (reproduced courtesy of the Jewish Museum, Prague).

15. Maria Mhlsteinov, Theresienstadt ghetto: Sold out! (reproduced courtesy of the Jewish Museum, Prague).

16. Zuzana Winterov, Theresienstadt ghetto: Order of the day (reproduced courtesy of the Jewish Museum, Prague).

17. German air raid shelter in the Ruhr (reproduced courtesy of the Bundesarchiv).

18. Hitler Youths and League of German Girls helping feed the bombed out, Dsseldorf, 1942 (reproduced courtesy of the Bundesarchiv).

19. German children being evacuated to Marienbad, October 1941 (akg-images).

20. Medals ceremony for Hitler Youth auxiliaries, 9 November 1943 (akg-images/Ullsteinbild).

21. German advent calendar for home and school, 1943 (reproduced courtesy of the Kempowski Archive).

22. German civilians fleeing westwards, 1945 (akg-images/Ullsteinbild).

23. Fritz Wandel, drawing of flight, from the exhibition Children See the War, Berlin, October 1945 (reproduced courtesy of the Stadtmuseum Berlin).

24. Volkssturm defending Berlin, April 1945 (akg-images).

25. Children returning Nazi school books, 1945 (Getty Images).

26. Karin Isolde Lehmann, Black Forest: Christmas 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Hartmut Lehmann).

27. Boy looking for food in the rubbish, Hamburg, 1946 (German News Service).

28. Polish girl in Warsaw trying to draw her home after the war (reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford).

29. Kalman Landau: Roll-call, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

30. Kalman Landau: Organising, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

31. Kalman Landau, Three prisoners sentenced to hang, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

32. Kalman Landau: death march, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

33. Kalman Landau Gas chamber, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

34. Kalman Landau Liberation of Buchenwald, 1945 (reproduced courtesy of Du magazine).

35. Thomas Gve: The dead of the concentration camps admonish us, 1945 (watercolour, pencil and coloured pencil on paper; gift of the artist; Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem