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Author:

Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish women--New York--New York--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--New York--New York--Biography.
Jews, Polish--New York--New York--Biography.
Women immigrants--New York--New York--Biography.
Jewish girls--New York--New York--Biography.
Girls Club of Brooklyn--Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography.
Jewish girls--Poland--Biography.
Jews--Poland--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0739146084 (electronic)
9780739146088 (electronic)
0739146068 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739146064 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010010704

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)