Ernst Papanek was an Austrian pedagogue who worked with Jewish refugee children in France in
1939 40 before he was forced to leave to the United States. There he nevertheless continued
his work to point out the impact of war genocide and displacement on children who were often
forgotten in major discussions about the war and the losses it had created. This volume
provides a short biographical outline of Papanek and a theoretical discussion about the impact
of war and genocide on children who are forced out of their lives and who were not only
physically displaced as a consequence. The second part of the book assembles some of Papanek's
important texts about the children he had worked with and for to make his thoughts and
important considerations accessible for a broader academic and non-academic public alike.
