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During World War II, the so-called June Deportation, carried out by the Soviet Union in June and July 1940, as the fourth of five waves of mass deportations of Polish citizens from Soviet-occupied eastern Poland, also targeted some 65,000 Polish Jews who fled from the German-occupied part of Poland. [57]
Portugal, apparently, was one of the last countries in Europe to confront the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria. Unlike other West European countries, Portugal did not attract Jewish immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
As Nazi Germany intensified its anti-Jewish policy, increasing numbers of Jews were driven to flee and to seek ways to emigrate. After the occupation of France in the summer of 1940, foreign consulates were confronted with increasing numbers of people seeking a safe haven and asking for visas.
23 Νοε 2022 · This lecture highlights the experiences of Jewish refugees fleeing from antisemitic persecution and from World War II to Portugal. It describes how they were treated, how they attempted to escape Europe, and how they struggled in a “no-man’s land” between a painful past and an unknown future.
Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro. Christian Portugal achieved victory over the Muslims in the Reconquest of the peninsula, with King Afonso I of Portugal becoming monarch of the newly independent region.
In the early 14th century, more than 200,000 Jews lived in Portugal, about 20 percent of the total population. Jews lived in separate quarters but had the freedom to move within the country; these quarters remained until the Jewish expulsion from Portugal.
16 Ιουν 2020 · Eighty years ago, a middle-aged, mid-ranking diplomat sank into deep depression and watched his hair turn grey in days, as he saw the streets of Bordeaux filling with Jewish refugees fleeing the...
