Out of the ashes: The impact of American Jews on Post-Holocaust European Jewry

Elaborates on the role of groups such as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in assisting European Jews in displaced persons' camps in Austria and Germany after the war. Many of the refugees had fled postwar pogroms in Poland. The groups did not always agree on how to improve camp conditions, and British and American armies may not always have provided the best support. The book speaks also of efforts to organize emigration to Israel