Flight from the Reich
Refugee Jews, 1933-1946
Published on 21. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
514 pages
978-0-393-34264-2 (ISBN)
Description
As persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through both legal and clandestine routes. In this riveting tale of Jewish refugees during and after the Nazi era, Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt thread together official papers and personal accounts to weave the history of refugees' lives into the history of the Holocaust.
Reviews / Votes
"An important and wide-ranging new history. . . . Dwork and van Pelt show [that] the story of the refugees . . . is crucial to any understanding of the Nazi war against the Jews." -- Tablet "Combining exceptional research with riveting narrative, Flight from the Reich illuminates a less-known chapter in the history of the Holocaust: the accounts of the few who made it to safety." -- Henry Kissinger "A bright shining accomplishment in Holocaust studies. . . . This is a great and powerful book . . . a masterpiece in its own right." -- Open LettersMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
50 photographs; 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
698 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-34264-2 (9780393342642)
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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.