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TitleEuropean expectations, American realities: the emigration of Jewish children from Occupied France to the United States, 1941-42

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Laura Hobson Faure

Call numberP940.53161/034

Object number11264

Place of publicationNewcastle upon Tyne, England

PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing

Year of publication

2006

Physical description15p.,bibliography

MaterialLoose-leaf

NotesArticle from the book 'Gender, families and transmission in contemporary Jewish context' edited by Martine Gross et.al. pp143-157

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Discusses the transnational perspective of the immigration of the “OSEchildren” which opens new perspectives in Holocaust history. Unlike the situation of individual central European Jewish child refugees, where organizations played a fundamental yet transitory role in the immigration process and foster care, the children from the OSE benefitted from an extended and more intense form of organizational assistance. This led to a strikingly different experiences for individual child immigrants who emigrated to the US. They were dispersed throughout the country in foster homes, orphanages, and sometimes family, according to the assimilatory policies embraced by American Jewish refugee organizations. Yet in the case of the OSE group, such policies not only meant turning the page on the past, but destroying a group that for many had replaced the family unit. This very different scenario justifies the study of these children as a group within the larger1000 children, as well as the singular case of the organization, OSE, and its failed attempt to create a bridge across the Atlantic

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