Africans and the Holocaust : perceptions and responses of colonized and sovereign peoples
TitleAfricans and the Holocaust : perceptions and responses of colonized and sovereign peoples
Author
Call number940.5318096/0001
Object number10605
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherRoutledge
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionxi,194p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
Series title; Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa
ISBN9780367195373
Description
Looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia, who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa, perceptions of Nazism in both regions, opinions of World War II, interpretations of the Holocaust, and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust.