Photo Credits: Lily Chow
Senior Kaylee van der Steeg, (History, Political Science, and Art History triple major with a concentration in Screen Studies) conducted research over the summer through Roanoke College’s Summer Scholars program. Her project titled, Children: Humans or Threats?, explores the lives of 732 children as they survive Nazi persecution before being sent to England. Her project focuses on the children who were in the concentration camp systems and their oral histories. While research mainly focuses on the 1940s, the arguments made throughout the piece apply to genocide up until today. Thanks to the Summer Scholars program, Kaylee was able to continue her research on children in 20th-century conflict. During her research, she noticed a gap in Holocaust, and more generally genocide, literature where it pertains to children. In the future, Kaylee aims to bridge the gap between the literature and children’s experiences through future research and publications. Kaylee would like to thank her advisor, Dr. Robert Willingham, Roanoke College History professor, as well as her proofreaders: Ivey Kline ’23, Madison Smith ’24, Camille Carter ’24, and Elizabeth Walton ’24.
Congratulations on all your hard work!