ISBN:
9789004514898
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (186 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 72
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, Meredith L. The lifeline
Keywords:
Grumbach, S
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Jewish refugees History 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps
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Alsatians Biography
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Jews Persecutions
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France Ethnic relations 20th century
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History
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Biografie
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Grumbach, Salomon 1884-1952
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Frankreich
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Elsass
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Judenverfolgung
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Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Konzentrationslager
Abstract:
""In my great distress and immense despair, I write to you in the name of nearly 400 Germans and Austrians interned at Camp de Catus," begins a December 1939 letter to Salomon Grumbach, Deputy of Castres and known refugee advocate. "We are poorly housed, like cattle. We live in stables and sleep on rocks and sand barely covered with filthy straw. The rats roam around night and day. In these conditions, not even the least hygiene is possible." The author, like thousands of other men, women, and children since 1933, fled the Third Reich for safe haven in France. France, however, was no longer the land of asylum that they had hoped to find. Its legacy of universal republicanism, generous immigration policies, and human rights had eroded in the face of economic depression, fear of war, and restricted visions of nationhood"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004514898
URL:
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