Most Holocaust survivors who resettled in America gravitated to major Jewish communities in big cities. Arwen Donahue and photographer Rebecca Gayle Howell tell the little-documented stories of nine who instead built new lives in Kentucky.
Drawing on oral history interviews and documentary portraits, the book traces why these survivors chose rural Kentucky, their early impressions of American life, and how they made peace with a place so far removed from where they’d been.
Published 2009
256 pages
$26.00