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

Published Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 183 p.) Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Girls Club of Brooklyn -- Biography SUBJECT Girls Club of Brooklyn. fast (OCoLC)fst01998408 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 HISTORY -- Holocaust. 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 LC no. 2021678573 ISBN 9780739146088 0739146084 1282607561 9781282607569 9786612607561 6612607564

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