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DASA 2019-2
EISUNBUD:
After World War {[,
l] seem to recall) that there were
bands of children who ina few years grew to be adolescents and
roamed around castern Europe, but {don't recall that anything was
said about th s after World War IL, Was this because in these countries they took care of the orphans in better style or what’ Or was
the economy left at a higher level”
DUNHAM:
E don't know,
Merril,
but [have a feeling that this did
go on in Central Europe after the war but for only a year or two,
You read Russian stories of children, their own children. ....
RISENBUD:
DUNHAM:
Yes.
Ut don't know where it would be dscurnented, but it was
a transient thing.
WARREN:
EISENBUD:
You recall the wolf children,
Yes.
That's in World War 1,
I think,
where I first
heard that word.
DUNHAM:
I think the same thing happened,
ROOT: You had it in Germany in all the bombed out buildings and
things, but I do think the mass of American support that came in
counteracted a lot of that,
HEMLER: During the first year they had a number of children and
all of your various so-called DPs wandering, trying to get away from
Germany or wherever they were back to where they had come from,
EISENBUD:
Yes.
HEMLER: It took over a year to organize these peaople—to get aa
organization going where camps were established. Although I say
over a year for the compicte organization,
in many cases it occurred
as the armi¢s moved into Germany. I[t was a full year before they
got a complete organization where they had full communications so
that messages could be transmitted back and forth on people regarding their relatives, and before food supplies were adequate and nat
rationed,
and so torth.