What is this dictionary about?
Behind every asylum request there is a human being. Behind every refugee there is a name is a publication explores humanity from refugee perspective. This publication memory the history of Holocaust during the world war II as well as the Jewish migration who experience it by creating a pocket dictionary regarding the name of Jewish refugees who arrived in Melbourne Australia between 1946 and 1954. This group of people are survival of holocaust and victims of inhumanity behaviour of Nazi. Through celebrate
the history to rise general awareness and understanding of humanity in term of
refugee migration.
What does this dictionary contain? How to read?
This dictionary contain 6480 Jewish refugee’s names. All the names has been organise
by chronological order base on their date of departure. It covers from 1946 to 1954
12 months in each year. There are 60 names in each month are listed alphabetically
by their surname. In that case surname in the front and given name at the back. The advantage of categorize by time is intend to avoid duplicate names as much as possible and keeps the number on each page manageable.
Holocaust led to migration.
The Holocaust was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant or
those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben or “life unworthy of life”. Between the Nazi rise to power in 1933 and Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945 more than 340000 Jews emigrated from Germany and Austria. The initial response to the Nazi takeover was a substantial wave of emigration much of it to neighbouring European countries. Most of these refugees were later caught by the Nazis after their conquest of western Europe in May 1940. Jews who were politically active were especially likely
to emigrate. Holocaust Death Camps 1941-1945. Survivors of the camps found it nearly impossible to return home as in many cases they had lost their families and been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbours. As a result the late 1940s saw an unprecedented number of refugees.
Where is the dictionary resource came from?
All the Jewish refugee’s names and information are credit to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
