Carole Bell Ford is professor emerita at Empire State College, SUNY.

Carole Ford's sensitive profile of young Holocaust survivors whose lives intertwine at the Girls' Club in Brooklyn sheds light on the challenges of forging a new life alone. The Club gave them opportunities for friendship, education and enabled them to rebuild their lives. Theirs are compelling narratives, told with compassion and grace. As we get to know them, we also find that we like them and celebrate their joys as they become wives and mothers, housewives, students, professionals, community volunteers, and very doting grandmothers. Despite their horrific experiences in Nazi occupied Poland, most of them refused to be victimized further and instead overcame the odds and led fulfilling and happy lives."

• 1 A Meeting with Holocaust Survivors2 Table of Contents3 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 4 1. Introduction: The Women and the Girls ClubChapter 5 2. Lodz: A Path to the GhettoChapter 6 3. Growing up: Coming of Age in a NightmareChapter 7 4. Sh'erit ha-Pletah: The "Surviving Remnant"Chapter 8 5. America: A Home at the Girls ClubChapter 9 6. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling DownChapter 10 7. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the RoadChapter 11 8. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women12 Bibliography13 Index

Carole Bell Ford is professor emerita at Empire State College, SUNY.

Carole Ford's sensitive profile of young Holocaust survivors whose lives intertwine at the Girls' Club in Brooklyn sheds light on the challenges of forging a new life alone. The Club gave them opportunities for friendship, education and enabled them to rebuild their lives. Theirs are compelling narratives, told with compassion and grace. As we get to know them, we also find that we like them and celebrate their joys as they become wives and mothers, housewives, students, professionals, community volunteers, and very doting grandmothers. Despite their horrific experiences in Nazi occupied Poland, most of them refused to be victimized further and instead overcame the odds and led fulfilling and happy lives."

• 1 A Meeting with Holocaust Survivors2 Table of Contents3 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 4 1. Introduction: The Women and the Girls ClubChapter 5 2. Lodz: A Path to the GhettoChapter 6 3. Growing up: Coming of Age in a NightmareChapter 7 4. Sh'erit ha-Pletah: The "Surviving Remnant"Chapter 8 5. America: A Home at the Girls ClubChapter 9 6. After the Girls Club: Settling In, Settling DownChapter 10 7. Betty and Lucy: Different Forks in the RoadChapter 11 8. Child Survivors in Old Age: The Aging Women12 Bibliography13 Index