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    Child Survivors of the Holocaust
    The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience

    Beth B. Cohen (Author)

    9780813584973

    Hardback, published 28 March 2018

    230 pages, 5
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg

    "A little-known, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating history about children, families and the Holocaust."
    - Diane L. Wolf (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."
    - Avinoam Patt (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."
    - Fraenkel Prize Committee (Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide) (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)

    2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist

    The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard. 

    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
     
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