Wilfrid Israel: German Jewry's Secret Ambassador
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When the Nazis finally requisitioned the Israel firm, and the Jewish leadership disintegrated, he ran the Jewish emigration office which enabled thousands to find refuge abroad, partly by his connection with the head of British intelligence in Berlin. After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938, through the Council for German Jewry in London, and with the help of his Quaker friends and German Jewish women’s organisations, he set in motion the famous Kindertransport. This was the admission to Britain without formalities of nearly ten thousand unaccompanied Jewish children. Leaving Germany days before the outbreak of the war, he lobbied on behalf of German Jews interned as enemy aliens. In 1942 he was recruited by the British Foreign Office to put his extensive knowledge of German politics and economics at the disposal of the government – also his expertise in rescue to its Refugee Department.
Wilfrid Israel was one of the first to warn of the Nazis’ plans to exterminate the Jews of Europe and the dimensions of the Holocaust. His final mission, to distribute certificates of admission to Palestine among the Jews of Spain and Portugal, ended when the plane in which he was returning to England was shot down by the Luftwaffe.
This biography, first published in 1984 and now revised with a new foreword, restores Wilfrid Israel to his rightful place in the history of the Holocaust. It also brings into new focus the disturbing indifference of Allied leaders to the plight of the Jews, early arguments over the emerging Palestinian homeland, and questions still unresolved today about the politics of rescue and the practicality of humanist ideals.
Naomi Shepherd
Naomi Shepherd was born and educated in Britain and, having lived most of her life in Israel, is now back in the UK. Wilfrid Israel: German Jewry’s Secret Ambassador was her first book and won the H.H. Wingate Prize 1984. Her other books are The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine; A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals; The Mayor and the Citadel: Teddy Kollek and Jerusalem; The Russians in Israel; Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948; Alarms and Excursions: Thirty Years in Israel; and a collection of short stories, Ashes.
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