Flight from the Reich : refugee Jews, 1933-1946 / Debórah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt

Publication | Library Call Number: HV640.5.J4 D96 2009

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Dwork, Deborah.
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-447) and index
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: xv, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Contents: Pt. 1: 1933
1933. The end of an era
People: The first to flee
Places: A homeland in Palestine
Papers: Passports in a closed world
Problems: Minority rights and Jews as a minority
Pt. 2: 1938-1939
1933-1938. The screws tighten
People: Officials and their solutions
A life anywhere
Visa stamps offer hope
The rupture of departure
Pt. 3: 1942
1939-1942. Toward genocide
People: Passeurs: guides to freedom
Places: Caught in internment camps
Papers: Loved ones become letters
Problems: Life as a refugee
Pt. 4: 1946
1942-1946. Holocaust
People: Sherit Hapleita: the surviving remnant
Places: Where now?
Papers: Lists of the living
Problems: Adjustment.
Other Authors/Editors: Pelt, R. J. van (Robert Jan),
ISBN: 9780393062298
0393062295 (hardcover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-447) and index.
Subjects: Jewish refugees--Government policy--Europe, Western--History--20th century.
Jewish refugees--Germany--History--20th century.
Jewish refugees--Europe, Western--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
Europe, Western--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Holocaust survivors.
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