Of pain, affliction and hope: escapes and migration to the Americas from Jewish refugees in times of the Second World War
The article explores a line of analysis, virtually unexplored in Hispanic American historiography, focused on the examination of Jewish flight and salvation trajectories through the Far East. To this end, the article focuses on and delves into the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of those who wer...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar/index.php/inicio/article/view/173 |
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| Sumario: | The article explores a line of analysis, virtually unexplored in Hispanic American historiography, focused on the examination of Jewish flight and salvation trajectories through the Far East. To this end, the article focuses on and delves into the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of those who were saved through this escape route and migrated to different destinations, such as Argentina, Mexico, and other American territories. Reviving the category of emotional community coined by Barbara Rosenwein, the article suggests that Jewish refugees shared a range of emotions and feelings, such as fear, uncertainty, pain, fatigue, and affliction, combined with relief, hope, and gratitude for the assistance received from family members, diplomatic officials, and especially members of refugee aid committees. In the specific case of the Polish Jews who escaped via this escape route through the Far East, it was also possible to identify a set of specific feelings, emotions, and perceptions, such as praise for the hospitality and kindness of the Japanese and appreciation for the role played by the Refugee Aid Committee in Kobe. The primary sources for this work were personal documents, such as diaries, and oral and written testimonies preserved in archives such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), supplemented by materials from the Oral History Division of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the National Library of Israel and testimonies held in the archives of Yad Vashem. |
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