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<p>A bold, groundbreaking work that provides the definitive answer to the persistent question&#58; Why didn&rsquo;t more Jews flee Nazi Europe?</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p><P>Tracking the plight of refugee Jews during and after the Nazi era, the authors of <I>Auschwitz</I> offer a comprehensive survey of various countries' responses to the refugee crisis and their often self-serving motives America, fearing immigrants would become public charges, required financial affidavits from American family or friends, which proved insurmountable for most European Jews. Britain granted visas to Jews of international repute, such as Sigmund Freud, but to only 50 Jews with licenses to practice medicine and 14,000 Jewish women willing to work as domestic servants. Eager to increase its white population, a racist Dominican Republic allowed healthy young refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to work on large-scale agricultural colonies. Internment camps in the Soviet Union offered a chance for survival while detention camps in France were conduits to the concentration camps and death. The establishment of the state of Israel resolved postwar Jewish refugee problems but ironically

Author

Dwork, Debórah, van Pelt, Robert Jan

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393062298

Subjects

History, Social Science, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24