Divided by the Holocaust

Divided by the Holocaust Tells the Story of Life After Liberation From the Perspective of Jewish Survivors Working to Rebuild Their Lives. Since There Was No Plan for Liberation - No Structure in Place to Help Survivors Settle Once They Were Liberated - These Testimonies Speak of Struggle Amid Confusion and Pain. Ambiguous Regulations Aimed to Repatriate Displaced Jews and to Confine Them to Camps Were Put Forth While the Classification of German Jews As Germans Without Entitlement to Additional Food Rations or Other Support Were Also Put in Place. Thus, the Normalisation of Jewish Life After 1945 Amounted to Abandonment. and As Germans Busied Themselves With Their Own 'Catastrophe' of Defeat and With the Reconstruction of German Culture, Jews Were Left to Depend on Military and Jewish Aid Agencies, All Pursuing Their Own, Often Conflicting, Agendas. Jewish Culture Since the Holocaust Incorporates the Traumatic Memory of the Holocaust As a Collective and an Individual Experience. yet I