Fragments of Memory: Lost Notebooks of Children's Testimonies from the Holocaust

In 1945, a group of survivors in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp opened several schools for the growing number of orphaned and displaced children at the camp. To help their young charges heal, the teachers encouraged them to write and speak about their traumatic wartime experiences. Recently uncovered notebooks of child testimonies, together with fragmentary archival collections scattered across multiple repositories, tell the story of this early documentary effort.