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Displaced persons growing up American after the Holocaust

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War, II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly foreign landscape of post-World War, II America. Paying eloquent homage to his parents' extraordinary courage, luck, and hard work while illuminating as never before the experience of 140,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1947 and 1953, Joseph Berger has captured a defining moment in history in a riveting and deeply personal chronicle.

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  • "In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War, II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly foreign landscape of post-World War, II America. Paying eloquent homage to his parents' extraordinary courage, luck, and hard work while illuminating as never before the experience of 140,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1947 and 1953, Joseph Berger has captured a defining moment in history in a riveting and deeply personal chronicle."@en
  • "Vividly recreating his parents' harrowing experiences in the light of his own childhood among refugees in America, "Displace Persons" speaks directly to a little-known slice of Holocaust history, the plight of 140,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1947 and 1953. Showing readers this world through the eyes of a bright young boy, the book captures poignant shadings, telling minutiae, and stubborn intractability of a displace life."@en
  • "Vividly recreating his parents' harrowing experiences in the light of his own childhood among refugees in America, "Displace Persons" speaks directly to a little-known slice of Holocaust history, the plight of 140,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1947 and 1953. Showing readers this world through the eyes of a bright young boy, the book captures poignant shadings, telling minutiae, and stubborn intractability of a displace life."
  • "This book is the author's tribute to his parents and to an entire generation of Holocaust survivors who fled persecution, violence and hatred in Europe and succeeded in rebuilding their lives first in displaced persons camps and then in the United States. This book recounts the experiences of 140,000 refugees who came to the US between 1947 and 1953. The author reveals his own traumas of a childhood caught in two worlds - the excitement of a new unexplored one while intractably rooted in the incompatible world of refugee parents, and the confusion that came with it."@en
  • "The New York Times reporter gives an account of his family, Polish Jews, who joined other Holocaust refugees to come to the United States, and made a life for themselves depite their foreign surroundings and horrific past."

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  • "Displaced persons : the making of an American family after the Holocaust"
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