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Author Ford, Carole Bell

Title After the Girls Club : How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages)
Contents Contents; Poem; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Introduction: The Women and the Girls Club; Chapter 02. Lodz: A Path to the Ghetto; Chapter 03. Growing Up: Coming of Age in a Nightmare; Chapter 04. Sh'erit ha-Pletah: The "Surviving Remnant"; Chapter 05. America: A Home at the Girls Club; Photospread; Chapter 06. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling Down; Chapter 07. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the Road; Chapter 08. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary After World War II, the Girls Club of Brooklyn, New York, became both home and safe haven to orphaned teenagers who were Holocaust survivors. They are a small group, but taken together these women's stories represent the broad range of experiences that most Jews suffered during and after the Holocaust. Some endured the ghettos and camps. Some survived in hiding, with partisans, or in the remote far-eastern reaches of the Soviet Union. Consequently this collective, personal history-enriched with relevant information about places, people, events and issues-tells not only their story, but also th
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Subject Girls Club of Brooklyn -- Biography
SUBJECT Girls Club of Brooklyn fast
Subject 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
Holocaust survivors
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jewish girls
Jewish women
Jews
Jews, Polish
Women immigrants
SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
Poland
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780739146088
0739146084
1282607561
9781282607569