Child Survivors of the Holocaust : : The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience / / Beth B. Cohen.
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 o...
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Ort / Verlag: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780813584997 9783110666083 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9780813584997?locatt=mode:legacy |
Zugangseinschränkungen: | restricted access |
Hierarchiestufe: | Monografie |
Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Beth B. Cohen. |