The Holocaust and Australia

Refugees, Rejection, and Memory

Professor Paul R. Bartrop (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18513-5 (ISBN)

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Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen’s lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior.

The Holocaust and Australia grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort.

Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country’s response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. Bartrop provides a peerless Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history.

Paul R. Bartrop is Professor Emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is the author and co-author of several books, including Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016), Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses (2014) and Genocide: The Basics (2014). He is also the co-editor, along with Samuel Totten, of The Genocide Studies Reader (2009) and the four-volume Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection (2014; co-edited with Steven Leonard Jacobs). Professor Bartrop is currently Vice-President of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, and is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.

Abbreviations
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1. Australians, Jews, and a Hostile World
2. Confronting the Refugee Challenge
3. Developing a Response
4. Australia and the Evian Conference
5. Holding the Line
6. Public Opinion and Policy Options
7. Liberalisation?
8. Total Restriction
9. The Last Days of Peace
10. Responses to Jewish Refugees
11. Refugees and Enemy Aliens
12. Wartime Europe and Australia
13. News about the Holocaust
14. Australians View the Nuremberg Trial
15. Aftermath: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals
16. Memory: The Holocaust and its Place in Australian History
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on the Holocaust
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-18513-2 / 1350185132
ISBN-13	978-1-350-18513-5 / 9781350185135
Zustand	Neuware