Child Survivors of the Holocaust : The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience / Beth B. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Beth B., 1950- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish orphans--United States--Attitudes.

Jewish orphans.

Holocaust survivors--United States--Rehabilitation.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust survivors--United States--Attitudes.

Jews--United States--History--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and "saved," they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as "survivors" eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Acronyms

Prologue

Introduction

1. Liberation: Battles after the War

2. "Our Greatest Treasures": America Responds

3. In America: War Orphans Find Home

4. No Happy Endings: Postwar Reconstituted Families

5. Growing Up in America: Lingering Memories and the US Context

6. Where Was God? Child Survivors and Jewish Identity

7. "Finding a Voice for Our Silence": Claiming Identity as Child Survivors

Conclusion: The Road to Repair

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813584980

0813584981

9780813584997

081358499X

OCLC:

1028552856