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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820596003321

Autore

Ford Carole Bell <1934->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

1-282-60756-1

9786612607561

0-7391-4608-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/180922

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Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.