Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Escape to Manila Gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees, who describe the difficult journey to Manila and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. Combining these accounts with historical and archival records, Manila newspapers, and US government documents, this book constructs an account of this chapter of world history.
Full description- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Published: 15 April 2008
- Format: Paperback 248 pages
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- Categories: Refugees & Political Asylum | Jewish Studies | General & World History | European History | Asian History | Social & Cultural History | Holocaust | Second World War
- ISBN 13: 9780252075261 ISBN 10: 0252075269
- Sales rank: 752,880
Full description for Escape to Manila
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. "Escape to Manila" 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.
