| he presentation is based on Dr. Marian Kaplan's new book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. The award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe.
Dr. Marion Kaplan speaks about the experience of refugees from Nazi Germany in Portugal, the port of last resort once Hitler invaded France. She examines the daily lives and feelings of those trapped in Lisbon for lack of visas and ship tickets but anxious to leave since the Portuguese government did not want them.
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"As a citizen of the United States and the daughter of refugees, I saw how our country tried to keep refugees out in the 1930s and 1940s, and how it’s doing that again today." In her latest book, Marion Kaplan—the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History—tells the stories of Jewish refugees who went to Portugal to escape the Nazis.
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| Marion Kaplan is a Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991), Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998), and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore, 2011). Learn more about Dr. Marion Kaplan here.
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