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1. The Childrens Books Birds land Yet another book about the Holocaust?! The context The selection Reception The books The trials of writing Why did they write? Tombs made of words Traces of a lost world The workings of memory Memories engraved in the body Writing Life and literature Creating distance The regard of the children Through their eyes Sensory world Reality of uncertain contours Magical worldview Interpreting the world Knowing without knowing 2. Persecution Exclusion Everyday racism Social inequalities The road to mass murder Facing persecution: denial Families in the eye of the storm Conflicts When families fail Children becoming parents Stolen childhood Identity Hiding identities God-Faithlessness Sacrifice Visions of apocalypse Hostile nature Stranger to oneself Space and time out of joint Final deprivation 3. Coping: Refuges and Escape Routes Imagination as a refuge Refuges: The magic of words Literature Writing Music and other forms of art Escape routes: Nature Memory as a refuge Escape routes: Solidarity The Righteous ones Resistance The courage of despair Refuges: Friendship and love Sexuality Escape routes: Laughter The theatre of the absurd Playing 4. The Aftermath: Surviving Survival Return to what used to be home Return to normal Lingering racism Silence Coping with the loss From persecution to opposition Exile Exiled to a new language Out of time in a no-mans land The war is not over Marked for life Return to life: rediscovering the beauty of nature Feeling human again Becoming an adult-love and sex Rediscovering arts and books and creativity Breaking the silence-writing 5. The Next Generation Never again? Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia The next generation The prism of senses A genocide in the making-discrimination and persecution Sinister forebodings The collapse of a world Unreal reality Exclusion Poisonous language Confiscated time Erasing the past The end of childhood Lost trust ....