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Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror - Softcover

Ephraim, Frank

 
9780252075261: Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252075269 ISBN 13: 9780252075261
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 fled to Manila with his parents, gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees, who describe the difficult journey to Manila, the lives they built there upon their arrival, and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. 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.

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About the Author

 
Frank Ephraim was born in Berlin in 1931 and fled to the Philippines with his parents in 1939. In 1946 he emigrated to the United States. After a career in naval architecture, he served as the director of program evaluation for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
 

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252075269
ISBN 13 
9780252075261
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248