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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust Paperback – September 1, 2002

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In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly foreign landscape of post-World War II America. Paying eloquent homage to his parents' extraordinary courage, luck, and hard work while illuminating as never before the experience of 140,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1947 and 1953, Joseph Berger has captured a defining moment in history in a riveting and deeply personal chronicle.
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Elie Wiesel Packed with emotion, descriptive and introspective, this powerful and sweetly melancholic memoir, brilliantly written by Joseph Berger, is a remarkable tribute not only to his parents but to an entire generation of Holocaust survivors who, in spite of the burden of suffering they carried from Europe and its legacy of hatred and violence, succeeded in rebuilding their lives and dreams.

The Washington Post Powerful, vivid.

The New York Times An absorbing, deeply moving memoir.

Eva Fogelman author of Conscience and Courage Joseph Berger follows in the tradition of Frank McCourt in being a master storyteller. He recounts a story that is both tragic and uplifting. His journalistic eye for detail will make readers cry, laugh, and never forget his family's saga....At last we have a second-generation voice of Holocaust refugees that defies stereotypes.

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Joseph Berger was born in Russia and came to the United States when he was five years old. Currently deputy education editor at The New York Times, he has also reported on religion and education for the newspaper and served as its bureau chief in White Plains. The author of The Young Scientists, Berger lives in Larchmont, New York, with his wife and daughter.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria Books; Reprint edition (September 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671027530
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671027537
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
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SusanTech
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Such a moving account of what it ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015
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Excellent book. Such a moving account of what it was like to grow up as Holocaust survivors. So open and honest. I also am a child of Holocaust survivors, but my parents never liked talking much about it as it was too painful, and I wouldn't ask too many questions so I could spare them the pain. My mother had a number on her arm from Auschwitz, but was "lucky" to be sent off to a "work" camp instead of to the ovens. My parents lived for their children, just as Joseph Berger's parents did, and I was lucky to be born in the USA. My sister and brother came here as children and were "greeners" like Joseph. The book made me laugh and cry! Thank you Joseph Berger for illuminating such an evil era which I could never understand completely and never really will.
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Amalia Lee
4.0 out of 5 stars This book resonated profoundly due to a shared history. ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2015
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This book resonated profoundly due to a shared history. I found myself responding very emotionally to the story and my evoked memories, which somewhat surprised me as I thought I had dealt with the pain thoroughly. I think there are some experiences that never lose their emotional force, no matter how much we have processed them and think we have defanged them.
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tam2think
5.0 out of 5 stars Displaced Persons
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A wonderful memoir that sheds light on how the Holocaust affected the next generation of Jews who grew up in New York. Wonderfully descriptive language as Berger shares with us his adventures growing up in New York. A colorful boyhood,despite his initial embarrassment that his parents were not educated and worked on Saturday. His parents' story of how people reconstruct their lives after losing everything and everyone in the Holocaust is poignant.
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DvoraT
5.0 out of 5 stars A well-told and compelling story
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
I found this book by chance when I happened to read an article, not long ago, by Joseph Berger in the NY Times about immigrants. He mentioned that his family stayed in lodgings on 87th Street that was provided by a Jewish charity. My father, in his personal memoir/notes, had written that we stayed in lodgings provided by another Jewish charity, but also on 87th Street. So I wrote to Berger and it turned out that we were staying in the same place and it was called Capitol Hall.
So I bought his book to see what else we might have in common. It turned out there was quite a bit. His mother was from Otwock. My father's family lived in Warsaw and vacationed a few miles from Otwock in Swider. But those two places were really worlds apart.
His parents spent the war in the Soviet Union. My parents also spent the war in the Soviet Union. But their experiences, once again, were worlds apart.
And once in the United States, although we spent the first few years in New York (in Brooklyn, not the Bronx), we then moved to Los Angeles, and as everyone knows, that is a whole other world.
So, as much as we had in common, we also had very different histories and experiences. But so what? Berger's book is interesting, very well written, and in some parts very moving. Many people think of the Holocaust as the murder of six million Jews. But not all Jews were in camps. Some like Berger's parents and mine, escaped Poland and went to the relative safety of Russia, and their Holocaust stories are significantly different. Nevertheless, his parents lost most of their family members who had stayed behind, and my parents lost all of theirs. That we certainly did have in common.
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Jeremy Biermaier
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for classroom use!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
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Used it for class and was a hit with students.
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Barbara Kestenbaum
5.0 out of 5 stars The meaning of becoming an American
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017
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This is a poignant success story of an immigrant family who came to a foreign country, America, and built a future for themselves and their children. It is an important story for this generation to read and understand.
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David J. B. Singer, MD
5.0 out of 5 stars can't say this a favorite book, as the subject matter is so depressing
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015
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can't say this a favorite book, as the subject matter is so depressing, though it shouldn't be, as these people were the survivors of the Nazi death camps, and became DP's post WWII....eventually coming to America and establishing themselves in new lives.....incredibly difficult to do.
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Edith Spector
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughts about this book
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2014
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I wanted to read about other people's experiences; who were second generation. It was not like mine; but then-like the Holocaust-every survivor's was different. The inner feelings were similar. I was happy to learn that I am not alone.
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J. Sweetwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice book, well written
Reviewed in France on June 4, 2023
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Kishkes and seichel, Highly appreciate it by the difficult customer
I want to recommend this book because I myself am a survivor of the survivors.
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