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By Haim Avni

From the Preface

Immigration and Rescue during the Nazi era is a topic which has been dealt with in a large number of research projects and books. Some of these touch upon events and facts related to Latin America. So far none has been dedicated to Latin America as a whole and only very few analyze in some way one or more of the Latin countries. It is the intention of this project therefore to bridge this gap.

Immigration is a drama in which the receiving society and the immigrants play the central roles, but it is very rarely a show for two actors. During the Nazi era, when forced emigration was more common; this drama involved even more elements than was usual. This project will also contemplate the contribution from the other forces at play in the final balance of actions and blunders.

Save for a brief introduction that sketches a background for the project as a whole, this paper centers on the case of a single country: Mexico. The description and analysis of the Mexican story will exemplify the approach to be taken in the eventual book for purposes of preliminary discussion. Most of the material used in this research was collected in Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, Austria, and of of course Israel during recent years, with the assistance of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture of New York.

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