Dealing with survivor youth in West European Jewish communities after the war

Discusses the problem of reintegrating the survivor youth into general and Jewish society. It was a daunting task as adolescent survivors' experiences had alienated them from the conventions and responsibilities of social and communal life. Religious outreach programmes and a new approach to Jewish education were implemented and although these had limited success by the early 1960s most communities had stabilised and were drawing on a pool of interested and talented young people. They thus laid the groundwork for a viable Jewish life in western Europe.