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Several of our interviewees still vividly remembered the shock of the first day in an American school. As one put it, “When my parents sent me to school here, I was dressed in European clothes, short pants, wool stockings and a back pack. This caused quite a commotion.” The newly arrived children, as well as the adult newcomers, experienced various instances and degrees of culture shock, a challenge common to most immigrants who are catapulted into what at first seems a strange and alien culture.1
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© 2006 Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald Holton
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Sonnert, G., Holton, G. (2006). Settling In. In: What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601796_4
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