Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 46–67
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
;
Jews, Austrian
;
Jews, German
;
Jews, Italian
Abstract:
In July 1940 approximately 6,750 prisoners of war, merchant seamen and civilian internees were deported as ‘enemy aliens’ from Britain to Canada; among them were approximately 2,000 refugees from Nazism and from Fascist Italy, almost all Jewish. Refugees were also interned who had arrived in Canada as aliens. This article aims to analyse more closely the fate and consistency of this special group of refugees, who initially had found refuge in Great Britain. It focuses on the socio-demographic characteristics of this motley group of males (e.g. age structure, origin, marital status) as well as the lengthy release process from internment, including the possibility of a return to Britain after the British government admitted that the deportation of refugees to Canada had been a mistake. The evaluation is based on a database analysis of an until now unexplored collection of index cards of Jewish refugees from Austria, Germany and Italy and aims to deepen our existing knowledge about interned refugees in the field of exile and memory studies.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004399532_004
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