After the Girls Club

How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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After World War II, the Girls Club of Brooklyn, New York, became both home and safe haven to orphaned teenagers who were Holocaust survivors. They are a small group, but taken together these women's stories represent the broad range of experiences that most Jews suffered during and after the Holocaust. Some endured the ghettos and camps. Some survived in hiding, with partisans, or in the remote far-eastern reaches of the Soviet Union. Consequently this collective, personal history-enriched with relevant information about places, people, events and issues-tells not only their story, but also the story of tens of thousands of child survivors.The work of scholars from various disciplines and genres provides background information and historical detail as this book traces the women's experiences from their childhood days in pre-war Europe to the present. Contrary to what early literature on child survivors predicted, they built successful lives in America.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-22
Mått163 x 241 x 20 mm
Vikt479 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLexington Books
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739146064

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1 A Meeting with Holocaust Survivors2 Table of Contents3 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 4 1. Introduction: The Women and the Girls ClubChapter 5 2. Lodz: A Path to the GhettoChapter 6 3. Growing up: Coming of Age in a NightmareChapter 7 4. Sh'erit ha-Pletah: The "Surviving Remnant"Chapter 8 5. America: A Home at the Girls ClubChapter 9 6. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling DownChapter 10 7. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the RoadChapter 11 8. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women12 Bibliography13 Index

Carole Ford's sensitive profile of young Holocaust survivors whose lives intertwine at the Girls' Club in Brooklyn sheds light on the challenges of forging a new life alone. The Club gave them opportunities for friendship, education and enabled them to rebuild their lives. Theirs are compelling narratives, told with compassion and grace. As we get to know them, we also find that we like them and celebrate their joys as they become wives and mothers, housewives, students, professionals, community volunteers, and very doting grandmothers. Despite their horrific experiences in Nazi occupied Poland, most of them refused to be victimized further and instead overcame the odds and led fulfilling and happy lives."