After the Girls Club - How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America

Informationen zum Autor By Carole Bell Ford Klappentext After World War II the Girls Club of Brooklyn! New York! became home and safe haven to a small group of young women! orphaned in the Holocaust! whose stories represent the experiences of tens of thousands of child survivors. This book follows them from childhood to the present as they! contrary to early predictions! built new and successful lives in America. In old age the women! once again! are defying bleak expectations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 A Meeting with Holocaust Survivors 2 Table of Contents 3 Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 4 1. Introduction: The Women and the Girls Club Chapter 5 2. Lodz: A Path to the Ghetto Chapter 6 3. Growing up: Coming of Age in a Nightmare Chapter 7 4. Sh'erit ha-Pletah: The "Surviving Remnant" Chapter 8 5. America: A Home at the Girls Club Chapter 9 6. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling Down Chapter 10 7. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the Road Chapter 11 8. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women 12 Bibliography 13 Index

Product details

• Authors: Carole Ford, Carole Bell Ford, Ford Carole Bell
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780739146064
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4606-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, American History;Social and Cultural History