Refugees From Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories

This special issue focusses on refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British colonies, dominions and overseas territories. It deals with aspects like internment, identity and cultural representation in not well-known destinations of forced migration like India, New Zealand, Canada or Kenya.

Contents

Forgotten Destinations? Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Dominions, Colonies and Overseas Territories after 1933. An Introduction

Part 1
Conditions and Parameters of Flight to British Overseas Territories
1 Transnational Yekkishkeit from a Canadian Perspective
2 Interned as ‘Enemy Aliens’: Jewish Refugees from Austria, Germany and Italy in Canada
3 “No Single Loyalty”: Processes of Identification among German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany in South Africa
4 Passages to the Antipodes: The Flight, Resettlement and Integration of Child Refugees in New Zealand
5 Restricted Refuge: Medical Refugees in New Zealand 1933–1945
6 To be a Refugee: Testimony of a Jewish Bulgarian Family, 1941–1948

Part 2
Literary, Musical and Artistic Refugees in British Overseas Territories
7 City Organist, Teacher and Entertainer: The Multi-Talented Werner Baer in Singapore, 1939–1940
8 The British Internment of Refugees from Nazi Germany in Kenya during World War II
9 Osterreichisches Exil in Australien: Beispiele aus Puppentheater und Architektur
10 Kinder der Welt: Zwei Wiener Filmpioniere in Shanghai
11 The Gravitational Pull of the Old World: Karl Wolfskehl’s Stagnated Poetic Oeuvre in Exile in New Zealand
12 Memories of Life and Cultural Production in Exile: Colonial India in the Autobiography, Essays and Film Scripts of Willy Haas
Index


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