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Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II

This archive chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950 using pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports.

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Current refugee crises figure prominently in world media. However, the history of refugee crises throughout the twentieth century remains largely untold through primary sources. With Refugees, Relief and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II, Gale chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950, bringing together over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects, and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.

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Reading Level: 1301L—+

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Content Types: Manuscripts

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News clip FO_945_488_00230 This clipping from The Universe, a newspaper for Roman Catholics in Britain and Ireland, describes the efforts by Polish nuns during the war to hide Jewish children in convents, often boys dressed as girls. The article mentions that 7 million Polish youth were lost and more than 1 million orphaned due to Nazi activity. U.K. National Archives Foreign Office 945/488
Daily Sketch November 18 1941 HO_294_182_0003 This November 18, 1941, clipping from the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Sketch describes the pressure Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk successfully exerted on U.S. officials to grant 5,000 Czechs American visas at a time when the United States had highly restricted immigration quotas. U.K. National Archives, Home Office 294/182
Jewish Independence Pamphlet CO_111_763_6_00450 This pamphlet was published by Joseph Otmar Hefter, leader of the Nai Juda or New Judea movement. He proposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Central America or Alaska, and this pamphlets solicited fellow Jews to join the movement to free themselves from persecution. U.K. National Archives, Colonial Office 111/763/6
Operation Oasis File_FO_945_763_00020 For Operation Oasis, referenced in this top secret file from the British Foreign Office, the British prevented the SS Exodus from bringing Jewish refugees to Palestine and ultimately sent its passengers to the British zone of Germany, where they were forcibly removed from the ship and put in displaced person camps. U.K. National Archives Foreign Office 945/763

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