Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America

Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made. William Helmreich writes of their experiences, beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt most comfortable–often other survivors.