What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution

by Holton, Gerald; Sonnert, Gerhard; Baylin, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780230609075
• ISBN10: 0230609074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is the result of a four-year, in-depth study using social science methodology of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study examines their fates in their new country, their successes and tribulations.

Author Biography

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science and Gerhard Sonnert is a sociologist of science and research associate in the Department of Physics, both at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Exodus	p. 13
Who Left and Why	p. 13
Through the Eyes of Children	p. 19
Destinations	p. 27
Advent	p. 31
Situation in the United States and Official Policy	p. 31
Organizations and Individuals Who Helped	p. 34
Arriving in America	p. 39
Settling In	p. 47
From Refugees to Americans	p. 48
The Children's Experience	p. 52
Socioeconomic Achievements	p. 65
The Success of Former Refugees: An Analysis using Who's Who	p. 65
The Big Picture: Representative Data About Our Immigrant Cohort From the United States Census	p. 71
Refugees From Central Europe and American-Born Jews: A National Jewish Population Survey Analysis	p. 82
Socioeconomic Status: Our Sample	p. 88
Partial Assimilation-Complex Identities	p. 93
Language Acquisition	p. 94
Elements of Distinctiveness	p. 98
Collective Identities: Ethnic Option vs. Universalism	p. 120
Ingredients of Success	p. 141
General Conditions	p. 141
Distinctiveness Advantage and Cultural Capital	p. 144
Career Choice and Career Success	p. 149
Transmission of Social Status	p. 155
Other Effects: Family and Community Circumstances, Age at Arrival, and Gender	p. 165
Success out of Adversity	p. 174
Anguish-Privatized Costs, Socialized Benefits	p. 181
Enduring Trauma	p. 181
Anguish and Achievement	p. 186
Syndromes	p. 187
Epilogue: Lessons for Current Refugees	p. 191
Samples and Methods	p. 195
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 257
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