Clare Ungerson

Four Thousand Lives (eBook, ePUB)

The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men had been taken to concentration camps where they were subject to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. This book tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, in East Kent, to which up to 4000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas - known as the Kitchener camp. The whole rescue was funded by the British Jewish community with help from American Jewry. Most of the men left their families behind. Would they get their families out in time? And how would the people of Sandwich - a town the same size as the camp - react to so many German speaking Jewish foreigners in their midst? There a well organized branch of the British Union of Fascists in Sandwich. Captain Robert Gordon Canning, a virulent anti-Semite, lived there. He and his grand friends from London (including the Prince of Wales before the abdication) used to meet there to play golf at Royal St George's. (After the war, Canning purchased the bust of Hitler sold at the auction of goods from the German embassy and kept it in his house.) This background adds to the drama of the race against time to save lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750958561
• Artikelnr.: 40514132

Autorenporträt

CLARE UNGERSON was brought up in London in a German Jewish refugee household and educated at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. Her whole working life was spent in academia and on retirement in 2004 she was appointed Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She is married to an historian and lives in Sandwich. She is the author of many books on social policy.