Surviving the Survivors: A Memoir

* The registry for survivors of Holocaust Survivors currently contains the names of over 195,000 survivors and family members and is adding more every day. (United State Holocaust Memorial Museum)

* According to the 2015 Child Maltreatment Report from The Children’s Bureau, published in January 2017, there was an increase in child abuse referrals (from 3.6 million to 4 million) and in child deaths from abuse and neglect (from 1,590 to 1,670) between 2014 and 2015

* The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations, losing on average almost five children every day to child abuse and neglect.

* 683,000 victims of child abuse and neglect were reported to Child Protective Services (CPS) in 2015, and a non-CPS study estimated that 1 in 4 children experience some form of child abuse or neglect in their lifetimes.

* Between 1945 and 1952, 137,450 Jewish refugees (including close to 100,000 Jewish DPs) settled in the United States.