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In November 1938, two weeks after Kristallnacht, Ickes proposed the use of Alaska as a "haven for Jewish refugees from Germany and other areas in Europe where the Jews are subjected to oppressive restrictions." Resettlement in Alaska would allow the refugees to bypass normal immigration quotas, because Alaska was a territory and not a state.
The Problem of Refugees from Poland in Soviet-German Relations (September 1939 - June 1940). Journal of Russian and East European Historical Research. No. 1 (4). pp. 66–76. 2012. ISSN 2409-1413; Samuel Ettinger. Part Six. The Newest Period. Chapter Six. The Nazis' Rise to Power in Germany and the Genocide of European Jewry during World War II.
The Évian Conference was convened at the initiative of Franklin D. Roosevelt in July 1938 to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees. For ten days, from July 6 to July 15, delegates from thirty-two countries met at Évian-les-Bains, France. However, most western countries were reluctant to accept Jewish refugees, and the question was not resolved.
Across the globe, refugees are trying to settle into new surroundings and are running into new challenges thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But too often news coverage of refugee issues doesn ...
The Voice Refugee Forum is a self-organised group of refugees which has been active throughout Germany for over twenty years. [1] It was founded in 1994 as The Voice Africa Forum by four refugees in a detention centre in Muhlhausen, Germany in order to aid resistance to the military dictatorship in Nigeria. The group pushed for the release of ...
It was also felt that a potential peace treaty with Great Britain would put the British navy at Germany's disposal for use in the evacuation. With Adolf Hitler 's approval, Adolf Eichmann released a memorandum on August 15, 1940, calling for the resettlement of a million Jews per year for four years, with the island governed as a police state ...
Sep. 14—Up to 100 Afghans evacuated from the country in recent weeks will be resettled in Alaska, according to Catholic Social Services, which oversees the Refugee Assistance and Immigration ...
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