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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/cant-turn-backs-stateless-youth/"></div><p>I was “stateless” as a child.</p>
<p>At 11, I left communist Romania with my parents. Upon our emigration, our citizenship was revoked; the state I.D. card replaced by a little booklet with our pictures, a travel permit. On the paper, our nationality was marked as “stateless.” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/cant-turn-backs-stateless-youth/#more-5312" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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We Can’t Turn Our Backs on “Stateless” Youth

An Archive of the Catastrophe

The Construction of Testimony

<strong>Marianne Hirsch&nbsp;teaches at Columbia University. Her&nbsp;most recent books are&nbsp;<em>The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference</em>, co-authored with Leo Spitzer.</strong>

Marianne Hirsch

Holocaust Testimony Beyond the Frame

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Marianne Hirsch&nbsp;teaches at Columbia University. Her&nbsp;most recent books are&nbsp;<em>The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference</em>, co-authored with Leo Spitzer.