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Operation Texas was an alleged undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, USA, away from Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948. [1] The following are some of the key arguments of the ...
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany. University Press of New England, 2001. ISBN 978-1-58465-106-2; Louise London. Whitehall and The Jews, 1933—1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees, and the Holocaust, 1933—1948. Cambridge University Press, p. 327. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-53449-9. Pamela Rotner ...
The 1938 Evian Conference, the 1943 Bermuda Conference and other attempts failed to resolve the problem of Jewish refugees, a fact widely used in Nazi propaganda. [note 2] A small number of German and Austrian Jewish refugees from Nazism emigrated to Britain, where attitudes were not necessarily positive. [54]
Jewish refugees on the St. Louis. In 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act was passed, limiting immigration to the United States. [1] In July 1938, the United States initiated the Évian Conference to address the refugee crisis with the nations of Europe and the Americas, but no consensus could be reached between the countries.
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B. Levinson, a Jewish Texan civic leader, arrived in 1861. [3] Today the vast majority of Jewish Texans are descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, those from central and eastern Europe whose families arrived in Texas after the Civil War or later. [1] Organized Judaism in Texas began in Galveston with the establishment of Texas' first Jewish cemetery in ...
Wyman documents, for example, how Roosevelt repeatedly refused asylum to Jewish refugees [6] and failed to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz. [7] At the same time, most Jewish leaders in America and in Palestine did little to pressure these governments to change their policy. [8]
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