Don't Look Back: Holocaust Survivors in the U.S.
Author(s)
William Helmreich
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Jerusalem Letter / Viewpoints
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Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Abstract
The author reports results of the first quantitative study of Holocaust survivors in the United States based on a truly random sample of survivors. (Previous studies examined only the population seeking social services, which introduced a bias.) Among the findings: that survivors seek psychiatric help less often than American Jews as a whole; that they have generally succeeded economically and socially; and that they have a higher birthrate and a lower divorce rate than American Jews as a whole. The author further discusses the reasons many survivors chose to come to America rather than Israel, and some characteristics of the survivors' experiences arriving in America.
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United States
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