Following the end of World War II, it was widely reported by the  media that Jewish refugees found lives filled with opportunity and  happiness in America. However, for most of the 140,000 Jewish Displaced  Persons (DPs) who immigrated to the United States from Europe in the  years between 1946 and 1954, it was a much more complicated story. Case Closed challenges the prevailing optimistic perception of the  lives of Holocaust survivors in postwar America by scrutinizing their  first years through the eyes of those who lived it. The facts brought  forth in this book are supported by case files recorded by Jewish social  service workers, letters and minutes from agency meetings, oral  testimonies, and much more.Cohen explores how the Truman Directive  allowed the American Jewish community to handle the financial and legal  responsibility for survivors, and shows what assistance the community  offered the refugees and what help was not available. She investigates  the particularly difficult issues that orphan children and Orthodox Jews  faced, and examines the subtleties of the resettlement process in New  York and other locales. Cohen uncovers the truth of survivors' early  years in America and reveals the complexity of their lives as "New  Americans."  (20110101)

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