Over ninety percent of Europe’s 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, but a tiny fragment of about 150,000 children survived. Cohen traces the postwar lives of these children, shedding new light on the way their experiences and perceptions both during and after the war shadowed and shaped their lives through adulthood.
Over ninety percent of Europe’s 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, but a tiny fragment of about 150,000 children survived. Cohen traces the postwar lives of these children, shedding new light on the way their experiences and perceptions both during and after the war shadowed and shaped their lives through adulthood.
BETH B. COHEN is on the faculty at California State University, Northridge, and she is the author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
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Table of Contents
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Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1 Liberation: “My Hell began after the War”
Chapter 2 “Our Greatest Treasures”: America Responds
Chapter 3 In America: “War Orphans Find Home”
Chapter 4 No Happy Endings: Postwar Reconstituted Families
Chapter 5 Growing Up in America: Lingering Memories and the US Context
Chapter 6 Where was God? Faith and Doubt among Child Survivors
Chapter 7 “Finding a Voice for our Silence”: Claiming Identity as Child Survivors
Conclusion “Memory is the Arena of Healing”: The Road to Repair
