This book focuses on the history of the Holocaust and Latin America. It is estimated that about 100,000 Jewish refugees immigrated to the region between 1933 and 1945. While the role of Latin America was crucial in the rescue of Jewish refugees from Nazism, the region has remained largely on the margins of Holocaust studies.

Examines aspects linked to the immigration policies of Latin American governments Analyzes the survivors' forced migration and their experiences of incorporation Argues that the memory of the Holocaust was a vector to mobilize demands from political and social organizations

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Daniela Gleizer is Associate Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Emmanuel Kahan is Associate Professor at the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

Yael Siman is Associate Professor at the Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, Mexico.

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PART I: MIGRATION.- Introduction; Daniela Gleizer and Sandra Gruner.- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Cuba as a Temporary Shelter; Maritza Corrales and Margalit Bejarano.- A Special Legal Status for Jews: Chilean Immigration Policy During the Third Reich; Enrique Brahm García.- Colonization, Asylum, and Nationalism: Jewish Migration to Bolivia; Sandra Gruner-Domi.- Stereotypes as Resistance: Jews and the Fight Against Victimization in Brazil, 1930-1945; Jeffrey Lesser.- Ecuador as a Destination for European Jewish Immigration; Daniel Kersffeld.- Viennese Refugees in the Colombian Caribbean, 1938-1945; Christian Cwik and Verena Muth.- Latin American Migration Policies Toward Jewish Refugees: National Differences and Regional Commonalities; Daniela Gleizer.- PART II: ARRIVAL AND RESETTLEMENT.- Introduction; Yael Siman and Nancy Nicholls.- From Europe to Chile: Ship Journeys of Holocaust Survivors as a Time-Space of Transition and Elaboration of Meaning, 1938-1950; Nancy Nicholls and Alejandra Nudman.- Arrival and Integration of Holocaust Survivors in Venezuela, Colombia, and Uruguay; Yossi Goldstein.- Migration, Arrival and Integration of Children Survivors of the Holocaust in Mexico; Yael Siman.- A Conflictive Absorption: The Reception of Refugees from Föhrenwald in Argentina; Ariel Raber.- 'Did you bring any girls?' Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosúa, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945; Marion Kaplan.- Scenes from Childhood in a Refuge from Nazism; Leo Spitzer.- PART III: MEMORY.- Introduction; Emmanuel Kahan and Lorena Cardona.- Sensitivity, Empathy and Political Action: Reception, Configurations and Uses of Holocaust Memory in Argentina During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Emmanuel Kahan and Wanda Weschler.- Holocaust Representation and Memory in the Southern Cone;Valeria Navarro.- Holocaust Consciousness and Colonial Legacies in Guatemala; Estelle Tarica.- Itineraries of an Exemplary Memory: Colombia and the Holocaust; Lorena Cardona.- 'Truths' and 'Falsifications' over the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Struggle for Memory Among Polish Jews in Buenos Aires Under the Presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, 1946-1955; Malena Chinski.