Hitler's Jewish refugees : hope and anxiety in Portgual /

Hitler's Jewish refugees : hope and anxiety in Portgual /

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Author / Creator:Kaplan, Marion A.
Imprint:New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020.
Description:xvi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Jewish refugees -- Portugal.
Jews -- Portugal -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Jews -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Portugal.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Portugal.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12006267
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ISBN:9780300244250
0300244258
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-345) and index.
Summary:An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe. This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

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