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1st ed. 22 pages ; 19 cm

"An address delivered ... at the Extraordinary Zionist conference, held in New York, May 9, 1942. 23 pages ; 21 cm

A historical survey of the transfer in July 1944 of 222 Jews, some of them Palestinian nationals, to Palestine in exchange for Germans interned by the British in Palestine. Among the 222 were Oppenheim's relatives. Discusses briefly the fate of Dutch Jews during the Nazi period, the Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen, where most of the internees selected for the exchange were billeted. There ...

"Historians long have analyzed the emergence of the "final solution of the Jewish question" primarily on the basis of German documentation, devoting much less attention to wartime Jewish perceptions of the growing threat. Jürgen Matthäus fills this critical gap by showcasing the highly insightful reports compiled during the first half of World War II by two Geneva-based offices: those of Richard ...

1st ed. 11 pages ; 21 cm

A book about Istanbul and those who conducted political and espionage missions there during World War II. On pp. 207-222 describes efforts by prominent Zionists sent by the Jewish Agency in Palestine to Turkey to rescue Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe, mainly from Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans. Discusses the tremendous obstacles the Zionists faced from the governments of Romania, Hungary, Turkey, ...