Flight from the Reich
Refugee Jews, 1933-1946
New York : W.W. Norton, [2009]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xv, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Flight from the Reich is a story about people at a time of crisis. As persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through legal and clandestine routes. In their multifaceted tale of Jewish refugees during and after the Nazi era, Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt braid the private and public realms, personal memory and official history. They probe the challenges faced by German Jewish refugees; the dispute among the Swiss on allowing Jews to cross their border; the dangers braved by covert guides who helped the hunted out of occupied France; and the creation of postwar displaced person camps, which have much to tell us about refugee camps today. Grounded in archival research throughout Europe and America, hundreds of oral histories, and thousands of newly discovered letters, Flight from the Reich shows how the lives of people thread together to form history.
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.
Holocaust survivors.
Europe, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
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.
Holocaust survivors.
Europe, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
0393062295
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HISTORY War WWII Holocaust Dwo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-447) and index.