From Europe to Chile: The Ship Journey of Holocaust Survivors as a Time-Space of Transition and Elaboration of Meaning (1938–1950)
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2025
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Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
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This chapter explores the migration of Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the late 1930s and the early years of the Second World War. It investigates what this journey meant for these refugees, who carried the burden of persecution and racial harassment by the Nazis and their collaborators. What emotions do they recall from the moment they left their homes until their arrival in Chile? We propose that the migration of European Jews to Chile can be understood as a hiatus – both in time and space – from the threatened and tumultuous life they experienced in Europe. This hiatus was experienced with ambivalence and had different meanings for adults, adolescents, and children. Nonetheless, for all involved, the journey was a live-saving escape. Our primary sources for this analysis are 23 testimonies of European Jewish refugees from the Voces de la Shoah Collection of Memoria Viva and the Visual History Archive (VHA) of the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation.
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Ópera mexicana, Nacionalismo musical, Subjetividades coloniales, Exotismo musical, Mexican opera, Musical exoticism, Musical nationalism, Colonial subjectivities