Four Thousand Lives

The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939

Clare Ungerson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9793-8 (ISBN)

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In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson 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, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas. The whole rescue was funded by the British Jewish community, with help from American Jewry. Most of the men had to leave their families behind. Would they get them 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? There was a well-organised branch of the British Union of Fascists in Sandwich. Lady Pearson, the BUF candidate for Canterbury, was President of the Sandwich Chamber of Commerce and Captain Gordon Canning, a prominent Fascist and close friend of Oswald Mosley, lived there and he and his grand friends used to meet there to play golf. This background adds to the drama of the race against time to save lives. Four Thousand Lives is not just a story of salvation, but also a revealing account of how a small English community reacted to the arrival of so many German Jews in their midst.

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.

Zusatzinfo	8 Plates, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7524-9793-6 / 0752497936
ISBN-13	978-0-7524-9793-8 / 9780752497938
Zustand	Neuware