Drawing on a wide range 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 organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations 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. -- .
| ISBN: | 9780719085499 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2011 |
| Author: | Bill Williams |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Genres: |
Refugees and political asylum Social and cultural history |