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- Summary
- Of the many refugee trails filled with stateless Jews fleeing Europe during the decades of the Nazi crisis, the odyssey of one man's escape from Poland to the Philippines stands unique. Cantor Joseph Cysner's recently discovered memoir recorded the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in the Polenaktion of October 28, 1938 and recounted the destitution of the expelled Jews in the refugee border camp of Zbaszyn, one of many throughout the no-man's-lands of eastern Europe. Rescued by a telegram from the Jewish Refugee Committee (JRC) of Manila offering him employment, Joseph left Zbaszyn and joined 1300 other European refugee Jews ultimately saved from destruction by little known rescue plans in the Far Eastern nation of the Philippines.My research resurrects these important events from historical oblivion, while showing how they incredibly link to each other, not only through global diplomacy, but in the life experiences of a little-known Jewish cantor.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- 2009
- Locale
- Philippines
Manila
Manila (Philippines) - Notes
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Thesis (Ph. D.)-- University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-417).
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services. 22 cm.
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- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic version from ProQuest
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 417 pages
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