Starting anew: the rehabilitation of child survivors of the Holocaust in the early postwar years

Scholars examine the process of rehabilitation of child survivors of the Holocaust in the early postwar period in various European countries and in North America. These authors researched the most immediate and crucial issues, such as medical assistance provided to children suffering from physical and emotional illness, the return of Jewish children from non-Jewish families and institutions, and the placement of child survivors through adoption and other frameworks to ensure adequate accommodation and their well being. Also traces the child survivors' responses to their own suffering and loss.