DARK CHAPTER
Wrenching children from their families is a hallmark of totalitarian and fascist regimes, but the US has its own shameful history of viciously destroying immigrant families.
Tara Zahra is Homer J. Livingston Professor of History at the University of Chicago and a 2014 Macarthur Fellow. She is the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World (Norton, 2016) and The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II (Harvard, 2011).