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Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian an

Jews --- Jewish refugees --- Political refugees --- World War, 1939-1945 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- Refugees, Jewish --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Migrations --- Manchester (England) --- Manchester, Eng. --- Manchʻēsdr (England) --- Manchester (Greater Manchester) --- City and Borough of Manchester (England) --- Ethnic relations --- Basque country. --- Fascist Europe. --- Jewish academics. --- Manchester. --- Nazi persecution. --- Spanish Civil War. --- anti-Semitism. --- industrialists. --- liberal city. --- refugees.