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Emmy E. Werner (1929–2017)

Autor/a de Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War

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Emmy E. Werner is a developmental psychologist and research professor at the University of California, Davis

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Crèdit de la imatge: Die österreichische Schauspielerin und Regisseurin Emmy Werner als Gast bei der NEWS-Leselounge der Wiener Buchmesse 2018. By Bwag - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74470316

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Altres noms
Werner, Emmy Elisabeth
Data de naixement
1929-05-26
Data de defunció
2017-10-12
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Germany (birth)
Lloc de naixement
Eltville, Germany
Llocs de residència
Berkeley, California, USA
Educació
University of Nebraska (PhD|Child Psychology)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Professions
developmental psychologist
university professor emerita
child development researcher
child psychologist
author
Organitzacions
University of California, Davis
Premis i honors
Society for Research in Child Development (Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development, 1999)
Arnold Gesell Prize, German Society for Social Pediatrics (2001)
Biografia breu
Emmy Werner was born in the town of Eltville, Germany, on the Rhine, and survived the Allied bombing of the region in World War II. She made up several years of interrupted education in about 18 months at the end of the war. She graduated from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in 1950, then emigrated to the USA. She earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Nebraska, and went to the University of California at Berkeley on a postdoctoral fellowship. She taught and worked at the University of Minnesota and the National Institutes of Health before joining the University of California, Davis in 1962. Dr. Werner's particular research interest as a developmental psychologist was the resilience of children. She and her colleagues identified a number of protective factors in the lives of the most resilient children that helped to balance out risk factors at critical periods and enabled them to develop into caring and competent adults. Among her 13 acclaimed books was Vulnerable but Invincible: A Longitudinal Study of Resilient Children and Youth (1982), written with Ruth S. Smith. Dr. Werner and her husband made a $1 million gift to UC Davis to endow the Emmy Werner and Stanley Jacobsen Fellowship to support Ph.D. students researching the genetic aspects of human behavior and development.

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Psychology, History, Holocaust, Europe, War
 
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emersonuumarietta | Aug 23, 2022 |
This book took me so long to read because I was crying. All the time. In joy, mostly. This is the type of book that reaffirms your faith in humanity. Denmark was close to neutral Sweden, held all its citizens in high regard, and had a low population of Jews - less than ten thousand. All of these factors - and more - play into the last chapter, where Werner talks about why such a huge rescue effort, and why they were able to save such a large percentage of its Jewish population.

Much of the book is, however, tales of how Jews were saved, and why the people saved them. It's backed up with quotes from memoirs, other books about this same phenomena, and various articles - from magazines and newspapers, the former from a retrospective stance and the former mostly from articles written when this was happening. It's a narrative based on interviews the author conducted himself, and backed up by a lot of outside sources. It's broken up into neat chapters that go over one particular aspect of the war and the rescue attempt. It's written in a smooth, comprehensive manner. It was brilliant!

It's highly moving, to the point that I cry when even thinking about this. It does have some editing issues in the e-book version - ends of sentences are repeated, and links for footnotes are in the middle of some sentences, but that's the only complaint I have about this book. Otherwise, it's brought me some peace about the Holocaust, and... I'm going to go cry in joy until it's time to meet my friends for brunch. I highly recommend this book.
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All_Hail_Grimlock | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 25, 2015 |
We experience the American Civil War by not only reading descriptions of battles, but also through firsthand accounts of children, preteen and younger. This account of many of the major battles and besieged cities gives us better insights into the brutality and even compassion of the American Civil War. From the caves and cellars of Vicksburg under seige, the assault, burning and occupation of Atlanta, the bloody battles of Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg and many other important places and events, we gain some amazing insights. The resilience and courage shown by children in the roles of soldiers, drummer boys, residents of cities under attack and witnesses of battles, is fascinating and amazing. In the epilogue, the author compares these experiences to contemporary examples of children at war. The author's style and skill at bringing the Civil War to life and the fascinating descriptions by the children make this one of my favorite books, likely deserving of rereading.… (més)
 
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jwood652 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 21, 2015 |
We experience the American Civil War by not only reading descriptions of battles, but also through firsthand accounts of children, preteen and younger. This account of many of the major battles and besieged cities gives us better insights into the brutality and even compassion of the American Civil War. From the caves and cellars of Vicksburg under seige, the assault, burning and occupation of Atlanta, the bloody battles of Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg and many other important places and events, we gain some amazing insights. The resilience and courage shown by children in the roles of soldiers, drummer boys, residents of cities under attack and witnesses of battles, is fascinating and amazing. In the epilogue, the author compares these experiences to contemporary examples of children at war. The author's style and skill at bringing the Civil War to life and the fascinating descriptions by the children make this one of my favorite books, likely deserving of rereading.… (més)
 
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jwood652 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 21, 2015 |

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