Holocaust and Australia : refugees, rejection, and memory /

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Author / Creator:Bartrop, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1955- author.
Imprint:London [England] : Bloomsbury, 2022.
Description:xv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on the Holocaust
Perspectives on the Holocaust.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13153936
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ISBN:1350185132
9781350185135
1350185140
9781350185142
9781350185159
9781350185166
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-273) and index.
Summary:"Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen's lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. The Holocaust and Australia grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country's response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. Bartrop provides a peerless Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history."--
Other form:ebook version : 9781350185166

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505 0 |a Abbreviations -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1. Australians, Jews, and a Hostile World -- 2. Confronting the Refugee Challenge -- 3. Developing a Response -- 4. Australia and the Evian Conference -- 5. Holding the Line -- 6. Public Opinion and Policy Options -- 7. Liberalisation? -- 8. Total Restriction -- 9. The Last Days of Peace -- 10. Responses to Jewish Refugees -- 11. Refugees and Enemy Aliens -- 12. Wartime Europe and Australia -- 13. News about the Holocaust -- 14. Australians View the Nuremberg Trial -- 15. Aftermath: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals -- 16. Memory: The Holocaust and its Place in Australian History -- Bibliography -- Index 
520 |a "Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen's lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. The Holocaust and Australia grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country's response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. Bartrop provides a peerless Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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