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Title Flight from the Reich : refugee Jews, 1933-1946 / Debórah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt.
Author Dwork, Deborah.
Edition 1st ed.
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012, c2009.

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Description xv, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
ISBN 9780393342642 (pbk.)
0393342646 (pbk.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-447) and index.
Contents 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 -- 1933-1938 : the screws tighten -- People : officials and their solutions -- Places : a life anywhere -- Papers : visa stamps offer hope -- Problems : the rupture of departure -- 1939-1942 : toward genocide -- People : passeurs : guides to freedom -- Places : caught in internment camps -- Papers : loved ones become letters -- Problems : life as a refugee -- 1942-1946 : Holocaust -- People : Sherit Hapleita : the surviving remnant -- Places : where now? -- Papers : lists of the living -- Problems : adjustment.
Summary Discusses the legal and illegal ways that millions of Jews managed to leave Germany, the challenges they faced, and the diversity of the refugee experience.
Library Class Sociology T1055.J4
Subject Jewish refugees -- Government policy -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish refugees -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Europe, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust survivors.
Other Author Pelt, R. J. van (Robert Jan), 1955-

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