Judith Baumel Unfulfilled Promise: Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States, 1934-1945, continues the tragic tale that has dominated the historiography of Americans response, or lack thereof to the Holocaust. She uses political, legislative, and social analysis to show the various restrictive policies and difficulties Jewish children faced in fleeing Nazi Germany. She follows the one thousand unoccupied Jewish children fleeing Western Europe, illustrating their challenges in assimilation and psychological trauma of often never seeing their parents or homelands again. Despite the severe difficulties, the author does demonstrate how these children often became educated, learned English quickly, and overall had successful
