Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,2 (1993) 202-215
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust survivors History 20th century
Abstract:
During the Second World War, neutral Sweden expressed its readiness to extract 20,000 Jewish children from Nazi hands through negotiations. However, the Allies on whose support Sweden depended, in particular the U.S. State Department, delayed the project. After Sweden carried out the brilliant rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943, and it proved to be the only country which agreed to the American proposal to intervene in the issue of the deportation of Jews from Hungary in 1944, the Americans took up the proposal, and in the last stage of the war nearly 21,000 internees from German concentration camps were shipped to Sweden.
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