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With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear…
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Takeaway Men is a novel that proves once again that you can never forget. Aron and Judy Lubinski and their twin daughters, Bronka and Johanna, leave a Displaced Person Camp in Poland and immigrate to America, hoping to build a new life and escape the horrors of the Holocaust behind them. Through the kindness of Izzy, a cousin that immigrated earlier to America, they settle in Izzy and his wife, Faye's home in Queens, NY. In their neighborhood, we meet other immigrants, survivors, all working hard to build a better life for themselves and their children. Each of the other…
From Rose's list on post-Holocaust coming of age fiction.
This novel follows twin sisters who were born in a Displaced Persons Camp after the war and who immigrate to the United States with their parents. Their lives are shadowed by the Holocaust, despite the fact that they are safe in America and trying to adjust to American life. Whether or not they are truly free of the Nazi influence remains a question, especially after they discover that their parents have kept secrets from them, and a Nazi had been ‘hiding’ in their American community. The picture of post-Holocaust life and the way the Shoah has impacted Jewish immigrants in…
From Ruth's list on novels set during the post Holocaust period.
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