Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In 1945, few refugee cases were as complicated as those of the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who found themselves stranded in defeated Germany but could neither return home due to antisemitic violence nor immigrate to most countries due to extant prewar visa restrictions. Between 1945 and 1947, some 150,000 Jews fleeing ongoing antisemitic violence joined them in American-occupied… more Full Text: IN THE WILDERNESS AT FÖHRENWALD: J E W I S H R E F U G E E S I N O C C U P I E D U P P E R B AVA R I A , 1945–47 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …