Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror

by Frank Ephraim

Book Overview

A harrowing account of Jewish refugees in the Philippines

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.

In this book Frank Ephraim, who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075269
• ISBN13: 9780252075261
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"