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Author Ephraim, Frank

Title Escape to Manila : from Nazi tyranny to Japanese terror / Frank Ephraim ; foreword by Stanley Karnow
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
©2003

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Destination: The Philippines -- 2. Unexpected Arrivals -- 3. The First Wave of Refugees -- 4. Manila Hears about Kristallnacht -- 5. Mindanao: A Plan for Jewish Settlement -- 6. Establishing a Life -- 7. What Does the Future Hold for Us? -- 8. Carving Out a Niche -- 9. War -- 10. Occupation -- 11. Can We Hold Out? -- 12. The Final Months of Occupation -- 13. The Battle -- 14. Reestablishing the Community -- 15. Leaving the Philippines -- Notes -- Index
Summary "In this book Frank Ephraim, who fled to Manila with his parents, gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees. Combining these accounts with historical and archival records, Manila newspapers, and U.S. government documents, Ephraim constructs a detailed account of this little-known chapter of world history."
"The Jews who escaped to Manila recall the long, dangerous trek from Europe to the Philippines and the elaborate series of permits, visas, and travel tickets it required. They describe the lives they built in Manila upon their arrival and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. Under the Japanese occupation the Jews, barely settled, were faced afresh with oppression, imprisonment, torture, and death."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-211) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Jews -- Philippines -- Manila -- History -- 20th century
Jewish refugees -- Philippines -- Manila -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Philippines
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Ethnic relations
Jewish refugees
Jews
Exil
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
SUBJECT Manila (Philippines) -- Ethnic relations
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100793
Japan -- Ethnic relations
Subject Japan
Philippines
Philippines -- Manila
Philippinen
Manila
Juden.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718420
ISBN 9780252091117
0252091116
129961051X
9781299610514