• Severed, Like a Tree From its Roots
  As a child of 9, I did not understand that my parents would not be willfully separated from their children... . Instead the feeling of being abandoned entered my psyche
• The Way to the Convent
  A young girl hidden in a Catholic convent wonders "why why was I left alone with strangers?"
• A Loner in a World Full of Others
  The consequences of being hidden among strangers... confusion, anger and infinite sadness
• A Kindertransport Story: The Lesser of Two Evils
  The long-lasting psychological impact of saving a child from the Holocaust by separating them from their parents and sending them to live in England.

Examining the Impact of Separation

• The Vanished Communal Heritage of Holocaust Survivors
  Holocaust survivors lost not just their families but also suffered a complete break with their pre-Holocaust live
• From Oppression to Liberation
  The Experience of the Remnants of European Jewry
• Shattered Life
  Among the many terrible measures the Nazis took against the Jews, the worst was the consequence of the disintegration of the family
• The Mona Lisa of Yad Vashem
  Examining the heart-wrenching conflict facing a surviving Hidden Child as the Israel Holocaust Museum seeks to use a stuffed bear, his surviving connection to childhood, as  the focal point of an exhibit 

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