Budapest's Children

<p><b>In the aftermath of World War I international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state.</b><br /><br /><i>Budapest's Children</i> reconstructs how Budapest turned into a laboratory of transnational humanitarian intervention. Friederike Kind-Kovács explores the ways in which migration hunger and destitution affected children's lives casting light on children's particular vulnerability in times of distress. Drawing on extensive archival research Kind-Kovács reveals how Budapest's children as iconic victims of the war's aftermath were used to mobilize humanitarian sentiments and practices throughout Europe and the United States. With this research <i>Budapest's Children</i> investigates the dynamic interplay between local Hungarian organizations international humanitarian donors and the child relief recipients. <br /><br />In tracing transnational relief encounters <i>Budapest's Children</i> reveals how intertwined postwar internationalism and nationalism were and how child relief reinforced revisionist claims and global inequalities that still reverberate today.</p>