Holocaust and Rescue: Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945

Shatzkes, P.

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period. Anglo-Jewish organizations achieved remarkable successes in the pre-war years, combining their administrative expertise with the financial guarantee of maintenance to accomplish the rescue of over fifty thousand refugees. By tragic contrast, their lack of political and diplomatic experience during wartime rendered them almost entirely incapable of influencing an intransigent government engaged in global war to save Jewish lives.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-02-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333960394

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598416

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 322