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What happened to the children who fled Nazi persecution
- Title
- What happened to the children who fled Nazi persecution / Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald Holton.
- Author
- Sonnert, Gerhard, 1957-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D810.C4 S565 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Holton, Gerald James.
- Description
- xiv, 265 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Nearly thirty thousand children and adolescents were among the refugees who fled from National Socialist persecution in Central Europe to the safety of the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Despite arriving under disadvantageous and traumatic circumstances - without means, language skills, often without parents, and haunted by harrowing memories - this resilient group of young refugees became extraordinarily successful in the United States and made significant contributions to their new country. In his compelling and comprehensive book, the result of a unique five-year research project involving more than a thousand participants, Sonnert and Holton document and explain the refugees collective success, while also accounting for the psychological anguish that lingers among some of them as a consequence of their early persecution."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Exodus -- 2. Advent -- 3. Settling in -- 4. Socioeconomic achievements -- 5. Partial assimilation - complex identities -- 6. Ingredients of success -- 7. Anguish - privatized costs, socialized benefits -- 8. Epilogue : lessons for current refugees.
- ISBN
- 1403976252 (alk. paper)
- 9781403976253 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006044806
- 9781403976253
- OCLC
- OCM68712356
- 68712356
- SCSB-5303971
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries