I recommend reading Livia Bitton-Jackson's memoir My Bridge of Hope. She described after she, her mother, and her brother (her father did not survive) were liberated by American soldiers, they stayed in a displaced person's camp (which seems like a common place for survivors to go) for a bit to nurse her brother back to health, they then returned to her hometown (her hometown had belonged to Hungary before the war, after the war it became Czechoslovakian territory). Their house was in completely ramshackle but their neighbors, astonished that they returned, helped them made their house habitable again. Others with nowhere to go camped out in abandoned buildings the government officially granted the buildings to the repatriates as shelters. There were worries about Russian soldiers roaming the countryside and there were rumors about them committing rape and theft. She returned to her former school but found her old Hungarian schoolmates expelled to the other side of the Danube, while Czech and Slovaks moved in and all classes were instructed in Slovak.

The Jewish survivors of her city organized a communal home with shelter, kitchen, and community activities with governmental funding.

There was a chapter about a large group of drunken people celebrating Partisan Day threatened to kill all the remaining Jews. The author was leading a group of children for summer camp and she led the children back to the city early for their safety.

Then Czechoslovakia officially became communist, so the "communal home" described earlier worked secretly to transport everyone either to United States or newly founded Israel.