Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust

by Ted Gottfried

Book Overview

As World War II drew to a close in 1945, panic swept over the continent of Europe. In Western Europe the populations scrambled to get out of the way of the defeated, retreating German army. In Germany itself, intense bombing had created some two million homeless German refugees. Perhaps the most profoundly affected population at this time of chaos, however, was the approximately 100,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Liberation of these...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761319247
• ISBN13: 9780761319245
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12