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Article Excerpt
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America. By Beth B. Cohen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007. xiii + 223p.
Between 1946 and 1954 approximately 140,000 Holocaust survivors reached the United States, making new lives for themselves in that country. In Case Closed, Beth B. Cohen charts the first years of their lives in America and, in her words, challenges "the unfailingly upbeat" public-relations images of their resettlement which, she claims, had little to do with the harsh realities of rebuilding their existence. Using interviews, casework files from the New York Association of New Americans (NYANA), social workers' and physicians' reports of that period, she attempts to painstakingly reconstruct various aspects of the displaced persons resettlement process while focusing on topics that have received little attention in earlier studies.
Cohen's narrative is definitely a compelling one, and...
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