Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Exil
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,2 (2009) 45-57
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the exile of political and racial refugees from Hamburg under the Nazi regime. Estimates that between 8,000-10,000 Jews managed to escape abroad; they made up 90% of all refugees from the city. It is not known how many of them perished under the Nazi occupation of their countries of refuge. Jewish emigration peaked in 1933 and again in 1938, later than political emigration. No separate statistics exist for Hamburg, but estimates that before 1938 the local Jews, like German Jews in general, fled mainly to other European countries and Palestine; after 1938 emigration headed to all continents. The Jews leaving Hamburg were mainly young or middle-aged; older Jews stayed behind, as did Jews married to non-Jews. Discusses the financial, professional, and social hardships encountered by the often highly educated Hamburg Jews in their new host countries. The problems they faced and their drop in social status were met with very little understanding. Only a few Hamburg Jews returned to their hometown after the war.
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