What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution

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

• ISBN13: 9781403976253
• ISBN10: 1403976252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• 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

Exodus	p. 13
Advent	p. 31
Settling in	p. 47
Socioeconomic achievements	p. 65
Partial assimilation - complex identities	p. 93
Ingredients of success	p. 141
Anguish - privatized costs, socialized benefits	p. 181
Epilogue : lessons for current refugees	p. 191
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