“Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing respectfully and empathetically with the important and often neglected issue of child survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices to be heard."
— Fraenkel Prize Committee, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
"Cohen's unique and original study is an important, empathetic story of child survivors, a group who profoundly influences the direction of Holocaust memory and education today."
— Avinoam Patt, author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
"A little-known, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating history about children, families and the Holocaust."
— Diane L. Wolf, professor of sociology, University of California-Davis
"The work deepen[s] existing survivor scholarship, will be useful for cross-national comparisons, and will add to Jewish history and American immigration history."
— Choice
"Cohen has made an important and original contribution to the historiography of children and war and Jewish children in the Holocaust and suggests a number of new areas that deserve further study."
— The American Historical Review
— Chronicle of Higher Education