Flight from the Reich Refugee Jews 1933-1946

Name: Flight from the Reich Refugee Jews 1933-1946
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ISBN: 9780393342642

ISBN-10: 0393342646

ISBN-13: 9780393342642

Edition: 2012

Authors: Debï¿½rah Dwork, Pelt Robert Van

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As persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through both legal and clandestine routes. In this riveting tale of Jewish refugees during and after the Nazi era, Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt thread together official papers and personal accounts to weave the history of refugees’ lives into the history of the Holocaust.An important and wide-ranging new history. . . . Dwork and van Pelt show [that] the story of the refugees . . . is crucial to any understanding of the Nazi war against the Jews.—TabletCombining exceptional research with riveting narrative, Flight from the Reich illuminates a less-known chapter in the history of the…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



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



1938-1939


1933-1938 The Screws Tighten


People: Officials and Their Solutions


Places: A Life Anywhere


Papers: Visa Stamps Offer Hope


Problems: The Rupture of Departure



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



1946


1942-1946 Holocaust


People: Sherit Hapleita: The Surviving Remnant


Places: Where Now?


Papers: Lists of the Living


Problems: Adjustment


Notes


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Index