Jewish children and youth in downtown Warsaw schools of the 1960s

The author conducted about ninety taped interviews with people who either still lived in Poland or left Poland after 1968 and settled in the USA, where many of those emigres moved (besides Sweden, Denmark and Israel). The majority of them were raised in fully Jewish families, but some came from mixed families or converted families. The main topic discussed was to what degree these people identified with their Jewish origins, covering their childhood and school years. The interviews revealed that even in post-war Poland the conditions under which identities of the first post-Holocaust generation of Jews developed, varied greatly