The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory

by Paul R. Bartrop

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350185132
• ISBN13: 9781350185135
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"