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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Marion A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish refugees--Portugal.

Jewish refugees.

Jews--Portugal--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Portugal--History--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Portugal.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Portugal.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

History.

Social conditions.

Portugal.

Physical Description:

xvi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Escaping terror and terror of escaping : before and after the war turned West

The exasperations and consolations of refugee life after 1940 : fear of Portugal's regime and appreciation of its people

"Lisbon is sold out" : relief and hope, Nazis and dictatorship

Emotional dissonance : adults mourn losses, their children look forward

Sites of refuge and angst : consulates and confinements

Sharing feelings in letters and in person

Final hurdles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-345) and index.

ISBN:

9780300244250

0300244258

OCLC:

1132290772