LEADER 04688cam a2200565 i 4500001 284696 005 20240621233254.0 008 220608t20222022enk b 001 0 eng d 015 GBC2B0558 |2bnb 019 128059829712806012201281135992 020 1350185132 |q(paperback) 020 9781350185135 |q(paperback) 020 1350185140 |q(hardback) 020 9781350185142 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)on1281141483 035 284696 043 u-at--- 049 LHMA 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dUZ0 |dOCLCF |dCDX |dLHM 050 4 DS135.A88 |bB37 2022 100 1 Bartrop, Paul R. |q(Paul Robert), |d1955- |eauthor. 245 10 Holocaust and Australia : |brefugees, rejection, and memory / |cPaul R. Bartrop. 264 1 London [England] : |bBloomsbury, |c2022. 300 xv, 278 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Perspectives on the Holocaust 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-273) and index. 505 0 Abbreviations -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1. Australians, Jews, and a Hostile World -- 2. Confronting the Refugee Challenge -- 3. Developing a Response -- 4. Australia and the Evian Conference -- 5. Holding the Line -- 6. Public Opinion and Policy Options -- 7. Liberalisation? -- 8. Total Restriction -- 9. The Last Days of Peace -- 10. Responses to Jewish Refugees -- 11. Refugees and Enemy Aliens -- 12. Wartime Europe and Australia -- 13. News about the Holocaust -- 14. Australians View the Nuremberg Trial -- 15. Aftermath: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals -- 16. Memory: The Holocaust and its Place in Australian History -- Bibliography -- Index 520 "Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen's lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. The Holocaust and Australia grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country's response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. Bartrop provides a peerless Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history."-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jewish refugees |xGovernment policy |zAustralia. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xGovernment policy |zAustralia. 650 0 Jews |zAustralia |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jewish refugees |xGovernment policy |zAustralia |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Australia |xEmigration and immigration |xGovernment policy. 651 0 Australia |xEthnic relations. 651 0 Australia |xEmigration and immigration |xGovernment policy |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 Emigration and immigration |xGovernment policy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00908700 650 7 Government policy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01353198 650 7 Jewish refugees |xGovernment policy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01730526 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 651 7 Australia. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204543 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 Perspectives on the Holocaust. 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS135.A88 |iB37 2022