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After the Girls Club
How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America
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2010
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4606-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4608-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Poem No access
Preface and Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Introduction: The Women and the Girls Club No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 02. Lodz: A Path to the Ghetto No access Pages 17 - 34
Chapter 03. Growing Up: Coming of Age in a Nightmare No access Pages 35 - 58
Chapter 04. Sh’erit ha-Pletah: The “Surviving Remnant” No access Pages 59 - 74
Chapter 05. America: A Home at the Girls Club No access Pages 75 - 94
Photospread No access Pages B - H
Chapter 06. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling Down No access Pages 95 - 114
Chapter 07. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the Road No access Pages 115 - 136
Chapter 08. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women No access Pages 137 - 160
