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63 p. ; 21x35 cm.

Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

In 1941 Fascist Italy established the so-called Centers for the Study of the Jewish Problem in an effort to develop an Italian variant of 'spiritual racism' as a fitting counterpart to Nazi racial doctrine. The most active of the Centers was located in Trieste, home to one of Italy's largest Jewish communities. The Institute's close ties with the German consulate and SS contingent played a crucial ...

Memoirs of a German Jew, born in Suhl in 1924. Pp. 25-71 deal with the Holocaust period. His family decided to emigrate in 1937; they asked American relatives for an affidavit, which was received. During the night after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, Mühlfelder's father was arrested, but he was released after his official emigration papers were delivered by the American consulate. An additional obstacle ...

Refutes the allegations of Japanese revisionist historians that Japan was hospitable to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Japanese attitudes to Jews were ambivalent: on the one hand, there was an exaggerated perception of the Jews' financial power and political influence; on the other, there was antisemitism, promoted by "experts" who had absorbed it partly from White Russian émigrés in Manchuria. ...

Between 1933-39 Turkey sheltered many Jewish emigres from Germany and Austria; in these and subsequent years, it suppressed the antisemitic and pro-Nazi organizations in the country. The Turkish embassy in Paris and consulates in France managed to save thousands of Jews who were Turkish nationals residing in that country. Turkish authorities assisted in the rescue efforts of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul, ...