1st Edition
The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945-1950)
By Gergely Kunt
Copyright 2022
248 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in a post–World War II orphanage in Budapest. This book tells the story of this children’s republic that sought to heal the wounds of wartime trauma, address prejudice and expose the children to a firsthand experience of democracy. The children were educated in freely voicing their opinions, questioning... Read more
Foreword by Susan Rubin Suleiman, Acknowledgements, Introduction, The History of Child Rescue in Budapest, A Christian Orphanage with Doors Open to All, Gaudiopolis: Democracy as a Game and the Game of Democracy, Immortalizing Orphans and the War in a Communist Propaganda Film, Conclusion, Appendix, Sources and Bibliography, Index
Biography
Gergely Kunt is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He is one of the founding members of the European Ego-Documents Archive and Collections Network (EDAC). He was European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies; Core Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University; Weickart Postdoctoral Fellow at Fritz Bauer Institut at University of Frankfurt am Main.
