"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
"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
"A little-known, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating history about children, families and the Holocaust."
— Diane L. Wolf, professor of sociology, University of California-Davis
“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
— Chronicle of Higher Education
"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