After the Girls Club : how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America /

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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 e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010.
Temas:
Girls Club of Brooklyn > Biography.
Girls Club of Brooklyn.
Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Holocaust survivors > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jews, Polish > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Women immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jewish girls > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Biography.
Jewish girls > Poland > Biography.
Jews > Poland > Biography.
Juives > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Survivants de l'Holocauste > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Juifs polonais > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Immigrantes > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Filles juives > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste > Pologne > Biographies.
Filles juives > Pologne > Biographies.
Juifs > Pologne > Biographies.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Jewish girls.
Jewish women.
Jews.
Jews, Polish.
Women immigrants.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn.
Poland.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A meeting with Holocaust survivors
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The women and the Girls Club
  • Lodz: a path to the ghetto
  • Growing up: coming of age in a nightmare
  • Sh'erit ha-Pletah: the "Surviving Remnant"
  • America: a home at the Girls Club
  • After the Girls Club: settling in, settling down
  • Betty and Lucy: different forks in the road
  • Child survivors in old age: the aging women.

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