@Book{1664335757,
author="Eppelsheimer, Natalie",
title="Roads less traveled: German-Jewish exile experiences in Kenya, 1933-1947",
series="Exil-Studien vol. 17",
year="2019",
publisher="Peter Lang",
address="Oxford",
keywords="Jews, German; Kenya; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish refugees; Great Britain; Colonies; Emigration and immigration; Government policy; Africa, East; Administration",
contents="Introduction: Roads less traveled -- Kenya? Historical background of Jewish emigration to Kenya 1903-1939 -- Safe haven in Kenya: first-person accounts -- Refugees' status in Kenya colony -- Experiences of refugee children in colonial Kenya",
abstract="``Before 'Nowhere in Africa' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, the fate of German Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. The film, based on the autobiographical work of Stephanie Zweig, tells the story of the Zweig family, who escaped the perils of Nazism and found refuge in the British colony of Kenya. Taking Zweig's written works Nowhere in Africa and Nirgendwo war Heimat: Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten [Nowhere was Home: My Life on Two Continents] as a point of departure, and drawing on extensive sources - including previously unexplored government files from the Colonial Office and other archival records, correspondence, first-person accounts and personal communication with former refugees - this book provides a detailed historical look at German Jewish emigration to Kenya. The volume explores British immigration policies and the formation of the Plough Settler Association, under whose auspices German Jewish refugees were to be settled in Kenya as farmers. It also traces the difficult lives of refugees, both adults and children, within the complex dynamics of British colonial society in the Kenya of the 1930s and 1940s. The book pays special attention to the experiences of children in the colony and also seeks to locate Heimat(en) [homelands] in the life narratives of the author''--",
note="Natalie Eppelsheimer",
note="Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-201",
isbn="9781789975376",
language="English"
}