A twist of fate: a German Jewish refugee's expose of the Japanese 1944 Kavieng massacre
TitleA twist of fate: a German Jewish refugee's expose of the Japanese 1944 Kavieng massacre
Author
Call numberS994.004924/001
Object number03731wbj
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Year of publication
2018
Dimensionspp 687-698
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from 'The Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society' Vol. XXIII, Part 4, 2018, pp687-698
Description
Tells the story of a German Jewish refugee, Albert Klestadt, who managed to escape from Nazi Germany with his brother and ended up in Japan. He left Japan in 1941 and arrived in Australia after the attack on Pearl Harbour. After the war he returned to Japan and became a member of the war crimes investigation. In that role he exposed massacres which took place in New Guinea, known as the Akikaze and Kavieng Massacres