Escape to Manila - Frank Ephraim
Title
Escape to Manila - from Nazi tyranny to Japanese terror
Escape to Manila - from Nazi tyranny to Japanese terror
Author
Frank Ephraim
Frank Ephraim
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
University of Illinois Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20030812
20030812
With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941, the peaceful existence of the barely settled Jews filled with the kinds of uncertainties and oppression they thought they had left behind. Escape to Manila gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees, who describe the difficult journey to Manila, the lives they built there, and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. Combining these accounts with historical and archival records, Manila newspapers, and U.S. government documents, Frank Ephraim constructs a detailed account of this little-known chapter of world history.
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Frank Ephraim was born in Berlin in 1931 and fled to the Philippines with his parents in 1939. In 1946 he emigrated to the United States. After a career in naval architecture, he served as the director of program evaluation for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
"The book's riveting centerpiece combines military history and personal horror to describe the Battle of Manila. . . . Burned out of their homes, Jews roam the streets with other civilians, seeking safe havens, crouching to dodge bullets, hiding in holes dug in the ground covered with corrugated roofing. . . . Escape to Manila . . . enables readers to know and feel the fires."--Hadassah Magazine
"Ephraim has constructed a fascinating narrative from a rich mix of archival research, oral history, and autobiographical memoir. He offers us a stirring portrait of a community of resourceful, resilient, courageous, and compassionate individuals."--Michael Shapiro, director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"The vignettes and first person histories make for very interesting reading."--Jewish Book World
Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Jews - Philippines - Manila - History - 20th century.|Refugees, Jewish - Philippines - Manila - History - 20th century.|World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Philippines.|Manila (Philippines) - Ethnic relations.|Philippines - History - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.|Japan - Ethnic relations.
Country of Publication
Illinois
Number of Pages
220