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. InChild 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.
年:
2018
出版:
Hardcover
出版社:
Rutgers University Press
语言:
english
页:
230
ISBN 10:
0813584973
ISBN 13:
9780813584973
文件:
PDF, 2.94 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018