A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz: a path to the ghetto -- Growing up: coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah: the "Surviving Remnant" -- America: a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club: settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy: different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age: the aging women.