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

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.

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