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Jewish refugees from Nazism are Jews who were forced to leave their place of residence due to persecution by the Nazis, their allies and collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The proportion of those who survived compared to those who died is about half in different countries.
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 ...
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.
Jews are expelled, their citizenship is stripped from them and they are subjected to pogroms in some Italian cities, including Rome, Verona, Florence, Pisa and Alessandria. [59] 1947–1972 Jewish refugees look out through the portholes of a ship while it is docked in the port city of Haifa. Iraqi Jews displaced 1951. The Exodus bringing in ...
That friend, Martin Blake, was working with refugees in Czechoslovakia after the anti-Jewish pogroms of Kristallnacht, and successfully convinced Winton to cancel his Swiss ski vacation to join him.
The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (U of Nebraska Press, 2021). Medoff, Rafael. America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) online; Mendelsohn, John, ed. Jewish Emigration from 1933 to the Evian Conference of 1938 (Taylor & Francis, 1982).
None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 is a 1983 book co-authored by the Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper. It is about Canada's restrictive immigration policy towards Jewish refugees during the Holocaust years. It helped popularize the phrase "none is too many" in Canada. [1]