The book
Saving Our Survivors
How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust
Indiana University Press, 2025
How did American Jews come to know about the Holocaust? Through campaign materials, public speeches, appeal letters, brochures, posters, radio broadcasts, and short films, the book traces how communal narratives framed survivors as subjects of rescue — and shaped Holocaust memory in America in the process.
The fact that American Jews discussed the Holocaust immediately after the war reveals crucial insights about narrative construction, fundraising, and the meaning of survival.
Lila Corwin BermanNew York University
Rich archival research that challenges the myth of postwar silence — showing how Holocaust memory was continuously shaped through campaigns and media.
Todd Samuel PresnerUCLA
Expands Holocaust education far beyond the classroom, documenting how organizational narratives shaped collective meaning-making in postwar American Jewish life.
Ari Y. KelmanStanford University
Talking about the book