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Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror
Escape to Manila From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror
Author: Frank Ephraim
With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941, the peaceful existence of the barely settled Jews filled with the kinds of uncertainties and oppression they thought they had left behind. Escap...  more » gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees, who describe the difficult journey to Manila, the lives they built there, and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. Combining these accounts with historical and archival records, Manila newspapers, and U.S. government documents, Frank Ephraim constructs a detailed account of this little-known chapter of world history.
ISBN-13: 9780252075261
ISBN-10: 0252075269
Publication Date: 1/24/2008
Pages: 248
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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