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Autore |
Ford Carole Bell <1934-> |
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Titolo |
After the Girls Club [[electronic resource] ] : how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / / Carole Bell Ford |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-60756-1 |
9786612607561 |
0-7391-4608-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jewish women - New York (State) - New York |
Holocaust survivors - New York (State) - New York |
Jews, Polish - New York (State) - New York |
Women immigrants - New York (State) - New York |
Jewish girls - New York (State) - New York |
Jewish children in the Holocaust - Poland |
Jewish girls - Poland |
Jews - Poland |
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 early predictions, built new and |
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