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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]
Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, [1] [2] and later Holocaust survivors, [1] [3] [4] to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, [1] in violation of the restrictions laid out in ...
Bricha (Hebrew: בריחה, romanized: briḥa, lit. 'escape, flight'), also called the Bericha Movement, [1] was the underground organized effort that helped Jewish Holocaust survivors escape Europe post-World War II to the British Mandate for Palestine in violation of the White Paper of 1939.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ) [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Jewish refugees arriving in London from Nazi Germany and Poland in February 1939 . The largest group of survivors consisted of Jews who managed to escape from German-occupied Europe before or during the war. Jews had begun emigrating from Germany in 1933 once the Nazis came to power, and from Austria from 1938, after the Anschluss. By the time ...
Between 1933 and 1941, the Chinese city of Shanghai under Japanese occupation, accepted unconditionally over 18,000 Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust in Europe, a number greater than those taken in by Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and British India combined during World War II.
In Japanese-occupied China there was a more significant Jewish population, including White Russian refugees and Baghdadi Jews. [7] As Jewish persecution in Europe stepped up, an increasing number of refugees travelled to China by steamship or had transited through the Soviet Union and were hoping to move on to the United States.