Jews and Other Foreigners: Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933–1940

In broad terms the story of Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany in Britain and other parts of the world is a familiar one. Despite the general reluctance to accept larger numbers of refugees—a reluctance demonstrated most emphatically at the Evian Conference in mid-1938—there were instances of principled humanitarianism which led to the rescue of Jews who would otherwise have met a cruel fate after the onset of the Second World War.