TY - BOOK ID - 136936616 TI - Nearly the new world : the British West Indies and the flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 PY - 2019 SN - 9781789206494 1789206499 9781789203332 1789203333 1789203341 PB - New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Jewish refugees KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Immigrants KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136936616 AB - "In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue-and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option"--. ER -