These chap­ters rep­re­sent select­ed papers pre­sent­ed at a work­shop at the Avra­ham Har­mon Insti­tute of Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ry / the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem. The remarks that fol­low are para­phras­es from the Pref­ace of this excel­lent vol­ume.

His­to­ri­ans Ouzan and Ofer, com­ing from dif­fer­ent back­grounds, became inter­est­ed in the role that sur­vivors played in the life of the Jew­ish and non-Jew­ish soci­eties to which they immi­grat­ed. Their stud­ies revealed a wide vari­ety of activ­i­ty and involve­ment in dif­fer­ent fields of the econ­o­my, cul­ture, and the arts as well as in shap­ing the mem­o­ry of the Holo­caust. Par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ing is how dis­placed per­sons nav­i­gat­ed through var­i­ous cross­roads in their attempt to reach the place where they would enter their new lives. Diverse sub­jects cov­ered include: what hap­pened to the rela­tion­ship and final locale of ​“camp sis­ters” after lib­er­a­tion; the post-war issues involved with Jew­ish chil­dren saved by being har­bored by Pol­ish Chris­tians; the post­war emerg­ing Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in France, Hol­land, and Bel­gium; the sta­tus of Jews in France and their atti­tude about the sit­u­a­tion; the way sur­vivors han­dled their mem­o­ries at dif­fer­ent stages; the role of sur­vivors in estab­lish­ing Europe’s cul­ture after the war and in rebuild­ing its econ­o­my; the ways that Jews and non-Jews in var­i­ous coun­tries shaped their post-war iden­ti­ties, etc.

Coun­tries report­ed on include those not­ed above and Israel, the Unit­ed States, Argenti­na, and Aus­tralia. Final infor­ma­tion includes a chap­ter on need­i­ness assess­ments and resource allo­ca­tions of Jew­ish sur­vivors, a bib­li­og­ra­phy, and notes on the contributors.