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Four thousand lives : the rescue of German Jewish men to Britain, 1939 / Clare Ungerson.
LIBRA DS135.E55 U54 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ungerson, Clare, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews, German--England.
- Jews, German.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Jewish refugees--England.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- 4000 lives
- Place of Publication:
- Glouchestershire, Great Britain : History Press, Ltd., 2014.
- Summary:
- And so the lucky ones came to England. They were ordinary men - they weren't famous or well connected or especially intellectual. They were the German equivalent of butchers and bakers and candlestickmakers: mechanics, carpenters, watchmakers, clerks, patissiers, musicians from lesser orchestras, school teachers. They had been good upstanding Germans, many of whom had fought in the First World War, until their countries of origin rejected them and their fellow countrymen took to cruelly abusing them. They had said goodbye to their loved ones and had little idea if they would ever see them again, yet they, as individuals, were travelling away from terror towards freedom and safety. They oscillated between being ecstatically happy and being in despair; their deepest wish was that this was the beginning - that once they were settled in England they would find the ways and means to get the people they had left behind away to safety too. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Terror in Germany 9
- 2 The British Response 19
- 3 Choices and Resources 31
- 4 An Arrival and a Party 41
- 5 More Arrivals and a Fracas 83
- 6 Jews Selecting Jews 65
- 7 Moving Towards a New Life 79
- 8 Minds and Bodies 91
- 9 Sandwich 103
- 10 Fascists Offensive 117
- 11 Race Against Time 127
- 12 War 141
- 13 Same Difference: Military Service, Internment and Closure 155
- 14 Identity and Death 173
- 15 Forgetting and Remembrance 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780752497938
- 0752497936
- OCLC:
- 860757389
- Publisher Number:
- 99959301789
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