A Project to Document and Examine the Experience of People with One
Jewish
Parent under Nazism, 1933 - 1945
The six million Jews who died in the Holocaust have been researched and memorialised. Not so the "Mischlinge" children who shared the persecution of the Jews and sometimes died with them.
This research initiative asks your help in locating people able to provide information about the experience of people with one Jewish parent during the Nazi period. It may be their own recollection, or that of a parent, relative or friend.
If you yourself had one Jewish parent, we ask you to describe what happened to you or your family under Nazi rule.If you had a relative or friend who had one Jewish parent, please write and tell us what happened to them.
There are no rules about what to write. Write what you would like to be known.
You may write in any language. If you need a framework, ask us to email a questionnaire (available in English or German) with some questions and suggestions. eandcw@aol.com
To maintain security and confidentiality, thequestionnaire will not be published on the Internet.
Evelyn Wilcock is a historian and a member of the Institute of Germanic Studies, London University. She has written in The Journal of Holocaust Education on children of mixed marriage and their experience of the Holocaust, and has researched extensively on the life and work of the philosopher Theodor Adorno who was himself the child of one Jewish parent. She carried out the first British pilot study of people with one Jewish parent and is the author of Pacifism and the Jews.
Information collected by the project may be deposited in the archive of a British University Institute. Confidentiality will be ensured where it is requested, either for a period of years (not to exceed fifty), or during the lifetime of the respondent.
Please send information written in any way you choose. It does not have to be complete or neatly set out. Information recorded on cassette will also be welcome.
We would like to collect at least one hundred records. Please help us by copying this notice and passing it on.
project
announcement
created for the internet
May 1999