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Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed – from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom – and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives.

Robin Judd is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, where she directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History Fellowship program. She serves on the State of Ohio’s Commission for Holocaust and Genocide Education and Memorialization and is the immediate past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest international society for scholars interested in Jewish studies.

Winner of two Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards: the Women’s Stud­ies Award and the Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al Award.

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