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

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....

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Main Authors: Kaplan, Marion
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven, CT :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
1900-1999
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
Jewish refugees
Jews
Jews > Social conditions
Refugees
Portugal
History
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, in
Carrier Form: xvi, 356 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300244250
0300244258
Index Number: D659
CLC: K552.51
K152
Call Number: K152/K174

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