
Flight from the Reich
Refugee Jews, 1933-1946
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 31. March 2009
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-393-06229-8 (ISBN)
Description
Flight from the Reich is a story about people at a time of crisis. As persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through legal and clandestine routes. In their multifaceted tale of Jewish refugees during and after the Nazi era, Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt braid the private and public realms, personal memory and official history. They probe the challenges faced by German Jewish refugees; the dispute among the Swiss on allowing Jews to cross their border; the dangers braved by covert guides who helped the hunted out of occupied France; and the creation of postwar displaced person camps, which have much to tell us about refugee camps today. Grounded in archival research throughout Europe and America, hundreds of oral histories, and thousands of newly discovered letters, Flight from the Reich shows how the lives of people thread together to form history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
50 photos; 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
836 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-06229-8 (9780393062298)
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Persons
Deborah Dwork is director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center-CUNY. Author (with Robert Jan van Pelt) of Flight from the Reich, Holocaust, and Auschwitz, among other works, she lives in New York. Robert Jan van Pelt is a University Professor at the University of Waterloo. He lives in Toronto.