This dissertation contrasts theory and practice in Jewish Holocaust survivor’s reproduction. Looking to five varying, interconnected sites of inquiry, I contend that while there are sites that code women’s reproduction as normative and desirable, women forged families and social meaning—if at all—in a widely heterogeneous fashion. Resuming life after persecution, family dismemberment, physical maim and psychological trauma, survivors’ bodies navigated a host of complex challenges that impacted survivors’—especially female survivors’—readiness and/or willingness to bear children. In theory, there are three sites and mediums that promote reproduction. Firstly, the deployment of photography in Displaced Persons camps, I contend, positions children at the front of marches and protests for immigration reform, evoking optics of a displaced nation and people. Children, leading the collective, marching from here and now to a there and then. Secondly, for women repatriated and whose bodies never returned to regular menstruation, I paint a medical history of the European-based fertility studies conducted on female Holocaust survivors conducted over 30 years following the war. Void of consensus or demonstrative reproductive damage, the studies were framed—by authors and physicians themselves—as grounds for national reparations. Women’s reproductive capacities, treated as indicative of a nation’s strength, became the entry point for aggrieved nations to stake their claims. Thirdly, I conduct a case study on 32 Holocaust testimonies, in which I claim that the tripartite structure of audiovisual testimony, situating a “before” and “after” destruction, ultimately signifies reproduction in a chronological retelling as indiscernible from redemption—a signification that certain Holocaust archival institutions exacerbate with family-centered approaches. These sites of pronatalist investigation are bookended by two historical inquiries into the practice of how Jewish survivors reproduced and forged kin. The afterlives of Jewish women experimentally sterilized in Auschwitz-Birkenau, I theorize, came to include child-centered models and non-child-centered models, ranging from child-sharing to avoidance. In closing, I present novel analyses drawn from the metadata of survivor Lore Shelley’s 1981 dissertation questionnaire, whereby I conduct multivariant analyses that reveal reproductive attitudes and trends, paving future intervention points for Holocaust researchers.