• Keeda, Peter.
• Kwiet, Konrad.

2012

ESCAPING THE HOLOCAUST : THE ROUTE TO NYASALAND / Peter Keeda ; supervised by Professor Konrad Kwiet. [Electronic resource]

[Sydney, Australia] : University of Sydney

1 computer file [PDF-format , 84 p.] : ill., maps, tabs., facsims. (some color) : [3,245 KB].
Number of Names or Other Entries-- 537 Names

Computer file (PDF format)

• List of Evacuees from Cyprus as reported by the Jewish Agency in the report of 23 June 1941.
• List of Evacuees from Cyprus in Nankumba Camp, Nyasaland 5 January 1942 : Table 5: Evacuees in Nankumba Camp, Nyasaland.
• Liste jüdischer Evakuierter in NYASSALAND/Afrika im Lager NANKUMBA am 5. Januar 1942.

• Survivors Registry Collection [computer file]: a PDF file of this work is available to authorized U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum staff as the USHMM Computer Network file: T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\EE3986\Nyasaland_Keeda.pdf
• Not in USHMM Library Collection as of November 1, 2012.

Holocaust survivors --Malawi --Ntondwe (Zomba Province) --Registers.
Refugees, Jewish --Cyprus --Registers.
Refugees, Jewish --Malawi --Ntondwe (Zomba Province) --Registers.
Jews --Emigration and immigration --Cyprus --Registers.
Jews --Emigration and immigration --Malawi --Ntondwe (Zomba Province) --Registers.
Nankumba Camp (Refugee camp : Ntondwe, Zomba Province, Malawi) --Registers.
Malawi --Ntondwe (Zomba Province) --Registers.

[Additional Geographic Keywords: Nyasaland, Nyassaland, Nankumba Camp, Ntondwe, Zomba]

Contains two alphabetical name registers of Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust as refugees in the former British Nyasaland Protectorate (current-day Malawi):
-- "Appendix I: List of Evacuees from Cyprus as reported by the Jewish Agency in the report of 23 June 1941" (441 names in 438 cumulatively-numbered entries), p. 52-62.
-- "Appendix II: List of Evacuees from Cyprus in Nankumba Camp, Nyasaland 5 January 1942 : Table 5: Evacuees in Nankumba Camp, Nyasaland" (96 names), p. 66-67.

"The rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s saw thousands of Jews attempting to find safe havens in other European countries, Palestine, China, Australia, England and the Americas. Those who found refuge in other European countries for the most part found themselves again under threat as the Third Reich expanded over Western Europe and then eastwards. Several hundred Jews found their way to Cyprus, which was under British rule at that time. However, in June 1941, Cyprus was also under threat of German invasion, and in a strange twist of fate, the British decided to evacuate all non-Cypriot civilians from the island, including 442 Jewish civilians who were evacuated to Palestine. Considering the limitations instigated under the notorious White Paper of 1939 which severely restricted the numbers of Jews who could immigrate to Palestine, the evacuation seemed in direct conflict with British policy. Of the Jewish evacuees, 270 were subsequently shipped to British protectorates in East Africa—Nyasaland and Tanganyika—where they remained throughout the war. This paper follows the paths of those Jews evacuated to Nyasaland [current-day Malawi]."--P. [i].

• Includes bibliographical references and bibliography (p. 47-51).
• Thesis (master's)--University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2012.
• "A dissertation submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney; Supervised by Professor Konrad Kwiet."--T.p.
• PROVENANCE:
  "List of Evacuees from Cyprus as reported by the Jewish Agency in the report of 23 June 1941" was derived from: Jewish Agency for Israel. ‘Report on the Cyprus Refugees (typed)’ from Aliyah Office, Tel Aviv, 1941.
  "List of Evacuees from Cyprus in Nankumba Camp, Nyasaland 5 January 1942" was derived from: Senn, G. C., 'Camp for Jewish Refugees at Nankumba, Nyasaland'. Geneva, International Red Cross, 1942 [original list available in International Tracing Service (ITS) collection as: "Liste jüdischer Evakuierter in NYASSALAND/Afrika im Lager NANKUMBA am 5. Januar 1942", V.C.C. 171/III (current-day electronic designation: 1.1.41.1, folder 17, images 72-74)].
• REGISTRY ACCESSION INFORMATION:
  An electronic copy of this work in PDF format was received via email by the USHMM's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center staffer William Connelly as a gift of the author, Mr. Peter Keeda on November 1, 2012.

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