Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War

While the examination of bystanders to the Holocaust has constituted an important part of Holocaust research in the last decades, historians have focused mainly on the two major Western Allied powers, the United States and the United Kingdom. This book broadens this important research area to include the other members of the anti-Hitler alliance and how they helped to shape the attitudes and responses to the Nazi persecution and extermination of European Jewry. Specifically, it looks at the 'Jewish policy' of the various governments-in-exile that were established during the war in London and elsewhere, offering for the first time a comparative perspective on an important topic. The book contains an extensive introductory essay by Antony Polonsky, along with contributions by leading academics, including Tony Kushner, Renee Poznanski, Rainer Schulze, and Dariusz Stola.

James Jordan is Karten Research Fellow, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations and English department, University of Southampton. He is co-editor of The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia and Jewish Journeys: From Philo to Hip Hop, and also editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. Jan Lánícek is Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and collections of essays. In 2010, he initiated and organized an academic conference on ‘Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during World War 2.’