Despite the centrality of family in both Jewish and Romani cultures, this is the first scholarly work to focus on the importance of the family in experiences of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Scholars from the US, Israel, and across Europe have contributed new research from the family perspective.

Contents Introduction: Why the Family?                                                                                             Kate¿ina ¿apková and Eliyana R. Adler Part 1 - Family in Times of Genocide The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust - How Much do We Know? An Ethnographic-Historical Study in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region Volha Bartash   Separation and Divorce in the ¿ód¿ and Warsaw Ghettos                                                    Michal Unger Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas Dalia Ofer   Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families                 Natalia Aleksiun Part II - Intervention of Institutions Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan”? Laura Hobson Faure   The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–49 Viktória Bányai   ‘For Your Benefit’: Military Marriage Policies, European Jewish War Brides, and the Centrality of Family, 1944–1950 Robin Judd Part III - Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust ‘Returning to Normality?’: The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany Anja Reuss   ‘I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father’: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter Collection Joachim Schlör   ‘Looking for a Nice Jewish girl ...’: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany before and after the Holocaust Sarah E. Wobick-Segev The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia Helena Sadílková   Notes on Contributors                                                                                                          Acknowledgements