Representations of World War II refugee experiences in memoirs, fiction, and film : studies in flight and displacement / edited by Helga W. Kraft and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach ; with a foreword by Dagmar C.G. Lorenz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- (Re)writing the French summer exodus of 1940 from northern to southwestern France / Marie-Claire Rohinsky -- Shifting identities and displacement in Germany and Poland (1938-1945): the films Europa, Europa and The pianist / Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Narratives of war, flight, and survival in Pomerania, Czechoslovakia, Siberia, and the Baltic Sea (1940-1949) / Herbert Arnold -- Intersections of class, gender, loyalty, and altruism in German flight memoirs of the privileged / Martha Kaarsberg Wallach -- Cologne and other ruins: dislocation in a narrative of flight from Holland to Switzerland / Harold Schweizer -- Flight from Romania to Austria and the United States (1944-1953): trauma and visual representation / Susanna Stachler Tschurtz -- Flight from Romania to Austria and the United States (1944-1953): trauma and visual representation / Susanna Stachler Tschurtz -- Internment and escape from Yugoslavia to Germany and the United States (1944-1950): a personal history of a Donauschwaben refugee / Elizabeth B. Walter -- Our future is compassion: working through the trauma of a childhood in Polish camps and expulsion to the West (1945-1949) / Martha Kent.

A collection of essays that newly examines the experiences of German refugees in World War II. Studies include the use of diverse media.

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