Table of Contents

Table of Contents
 
Abbreviations
 
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
 
Acknowledgements
 
Bibliography
 
Index
 
About the Author
 

About the Author

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). 

Reviews

"A little-known, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating history about children, families and the Holocaust."
*professor of sociology, University of California-Davis*

"Cohen's unique and original study is an important, empathetic story of child survivors, a group who profoundly influences the direction of Holocaust memory and education today."
*author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust*

“Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing respectfully and empathetically with the important and often neglected issue of child survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices to be heard."
*Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide*

"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub
*Chronicle of Higher Education*

"The work deepen[s] existing survivor scholarship, will be useful for cross-national comparisons, and will add to Jewish history and American immigration history."
*Choice*

"Cohen has made an important and original contribution to the historiography of children and war and Jewish children in the Holocaust and suggests a number of new areas that deserve further study."
*The American Historical Review*