Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000
Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they
have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences
beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed
reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always
eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in
America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom
they felt most comfortable--most often other survivors.
In preparation, Helmreich spent more than six years traveling
the United States, listening to the personal stories of hundreds of
survivors, and examining more than 15,000 pages of data as well as
new material from archives that have never before been available to
create this remarkable, groundbreaking work. What emerges is a
picture that is sharply different from the stereotypical image of
survivors as people who are chronically depressed, anxious, and
fearful.
This intimate, enlightening work explores questions about
prevailing over hardship and adversity: how people who have gone
through such experiences pick up the threads of their lives; where
they obtain the strength and spirit to go on; and, finally, what
lessdns the rest of us can learn about overcoming tragedy.
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