How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives - 9780253033130

How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their LivesFrance, the United States, and Israel\nAuthor(s): Franoise S. Ouzan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253033130, 978-0253033130\nSynopsis\nDrawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Franoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including displaced persons, partisan fighters, hidden children, and refugees from Nazism. Ouzan shows that personal success is not only a unifying factor among these survivors but is part of an ethos that unified ideas of homeland, social justice, togetherness, and individual aspirations in the redemptive experience. Exploring how Holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives after World War II, Ouzan tells the story .