After the Girls Club: How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built by Carole Bell Ford PDF

By Carole Bell Ford

After global battle II, the ladies membership of Brooklyn, long island, turned either domestic and refuge to orphaned kids who have been Holocaust survivors. they're a small crew, yet taken jointly those women's tales symbolize the huge diversity of reviews that almost all Jews suffered in the course of and after the Holocaust. a few persisted the ghettos and camps. a few survived in hiding, with partisans, or within the distant far-eastern reaches of the Soviet Union. hence this collective, own history-enriched with proper information regarding areas, humans, occasions and issues-tells not just their tale, but additionally the tale of tens of millions of kid survivors. The paintings of students from a variety of disciplines and genres presents history details and ancient aspect as this e-book strains the women's reports from their formative years days in pre-war Europe to the current. opposite to what early literature on baby survivors envisioned, they equipped profitable lives in America.

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