Beth B. Cohen

Beth B. Cohen is the author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (2007) and Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience (2018) a,s well as numerous articles and book chapters on the postwar experience of Holocaust survivors. In addition to teaching and research, she consults widely to Holocaust-related educational organizations, museums, and films.

Articles by this author

Holocaust Survivors: Rescue and Resettlement in the United States

Immediately after the Holocaust, the American Jewish community assisted in the postwar rehabilitation and resettlement of survivors who arrived in the United States. Families sponsored European relatives and communal agencies organized to help survivors’ adjustment. While the contemporary media described a warm welcome by American communities and survivors’ rapid acclimation, this triumphant narrative belied the fraught reality of survivors’ early years in the United States.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Beth B. Cohen." (Viewed on November 2, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/cohen-beth>.