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Nearly the New World : the British West Indies and the flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 / Joanna Newman

Newman, Joanna [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019

xii, 307 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 297

Erscheint auch als: Newman, Joanna : Nearly the new world. - New York : Berghahn, 2019 (Online-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: Nearly the New World. The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945Joanna Newman / Diane Afoumado, 2020

978-1-78920-649-4 (paperback); 978-1-78920-333-2 (hardback)

978-1-78920-334-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1128833452     

F2133

940.53089/924     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 15.88 (Mittelamerika; Südamerika) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

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*Westindien ; Briten ; Flucht ; Nationalsozialist ; Geschichte 1933-1945     Zum Register

*Westindien ; Juden ; Flüchtling ; Geschichte 1933-1945      Zum Register

*Westindien ; Juden ; Flüchtling ; Geschichte 1933-1945      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century ; Jewish refugees -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- West Indies, British ; Immigrants -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century

World War (1939-1945) ; Immigrants ; Jewish refugees ; Jews ; West Indies ; British West Indies ; History

The contextual drivers : the British West Indies, the colonial office and Jewish refugee organizations -- Jews seeking refuge, 1933-1938 -- Panic migration : the British West Indies and the refugee crisis of 1938-39 -- Boat people -- Internment, camps and missed opportunities.

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"In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue-and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option"--