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Most studies of exiles and emigres from Nazi Germany have concerned
the lives of outstanding scientists and scholars in various fields.
This book is based on in-depth interviews with 34 men and women who
had to flee from Germany and came to Britain between 1933 and 1940,
focusing on "ordinary" people. Special attention is given to the
social, educational and cultural backgrounds of the exiles, all of
which were to play a crucial role in their new lives. Attention is
also given to the historical and personal circumstances of their
enforced departure, including family members who voluntarily or for
other reasons stayed behind, often to perish ultimately in the
Holocaust.
Based on interviews, this work is a thematic study of
representative men and women who came to Britain from Germany,
Austria, and Czechoslovakia as refugees from Nazism. Of the 34
interviewees, 23 are women and six are non-Jewish. The
German-speaking emigration to Britain from 1933 through 1940 is
often referred to as "Hitler's Gift" because of the many
distinguished scholars and scientists it yielded. This book, with
its many accounts of unsung achievement, for the first time shows
the true dimensions of that gift.
Between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939, over 60,000 Jewish
refugees from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia fled to Britain,
and some 50,000 settled there. No previous historical study of this
group of immigrants exists, though they form one of the most
high-profile groups of refugees to have come to Britain in the
twentieth century, both as survivors of the Nazi terror and as
high-achieving contributors to British society. Author Anthony
Grenville focuses on the first quarter-century of their settlement
in Britain. He covers new ground by drawing on a rich source of
contemporary material - the previously untapped monthly journal of
the Association of Jewish Refugees, AJR Information, which started
in January 1946. The journal is the only contemporary source that
provides material for a full-scale history of these refugees when
they established themselves permanently in Britain, how they
adapted to British society and developed their distinctive
'Continental' identity and culture that characterized them in their
adopted homeland.
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians
seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached
Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a
comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a
theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced
organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the
first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees
in Britain, Out of Austria assesses and evaluates the Austrian
Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the
Austrians' often fraught relations with their British hosts. It
gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who
became the Centre's Honorary President during his final months and
the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old, and sheds
light on the interaction of politics and culture against the
background of exile in wartime Britain.
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians
seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached
Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a
comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a
theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced
organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the
first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees
in Britain, "Out of Austria" assesses and evaluates the Austrian
Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the
Austrians' often fraught relations with their British hosts. It
gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who
became the Centre's Honorary President during his final months and
the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old, k and
sheds light on the interaction of politics and culture against the
background of exile in wartime Britain.
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