Title: Facing the past
First published: 1990
Description: Focuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their parents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them were painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversity. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very different ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of interviews as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Subjects: Refugee children, Social aspects, Jewish children, Emigration and immigration, History
Places: New Zealand
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HV640.4.N45 B43 1990