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Jews and Other Foreigners: Manchester and the victims of European Fascism, 1933-40
Jews and Other Foreigners Manchester and the victims of European Fascism 193340 Author:Bill Williams Drawing on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organizations and the Zionist movement to the Christian chu... more »rches, to pacifist organizations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian, and Czech - who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940.« less