Displaced Persons: Growing up American after the Holocaust

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...