Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe

This exodus was triggered by the militaristic antisemitism perpetrated by the Nazi Party and by Germany's collaborators, ultimately culminating in the Holocaust.

In 1933, Hitler and the Jewish League agreed to the Haavara Agreement in which, over time, German Jews and their finances could and would settle in Mandatory Palestine.

[2] Subject to threats and persecution, Jews began to emigrate from that point until the start of World War II.

Franz Mayer, a Jewish leader, said of Eichmann's system: "You put in a Jew at one end, with property, a shop, a bank account, and legal rights.

He passed through the building and came out at the other end without property, without privileges, without rights, with nothing except a passport and order to leave the country within a fortnight; otherwise, he would find himself inside a concentration camp.

[2][5] Many of the 100000 people who found refuge in neighbouring European countries, like the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, were captured and murdered by the Nazis, after May 1940, when they invaded western Europe.

Many of the French, Luxembourgish, Belgian, and Dutch Jews were protected by their Country's resistances, hid in secret locations that were hard to find for the Nazis, and fled to the United Kingdom, Free France (Algeria), Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Canada, and the United States.After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, some Norwegian Jews were able to find a safe haven in Sweden, which was neutral.

Other Jews were spared harsh treatment, however, and some were trained in Moscow, so as to be fit to command a new Polish government after the war was over.

During The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Jews who were unable to flee to the Asian parts of the country were methodically shot.

President Rafael Trujillo did this partially to deflect international criticism of mass killings of Haitian refugees in the Parsley massacre.

[7] Manuel Quezon, the president of the Philippines, under the Open Doors policy planned to accept Jewish refugees from Europe.

[1] The MS St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany for Cuba, who had issued transit visas for more than 900 Jewish refugees, on a voyage that occurred from May to June 1939.

Almost all of them fled during the Chinese Civil War and the Communist Revolution, with most Jewish expatriates being evacuated from Shanghai to Israel beginning in 1948.

[...] It is to canalize all the sympathy of the world for the martyrdom of the Jews that the Zionists reject all schemes to resettle these victims elsewhere — in Germany, or Poland, or in sparsely populated regions such as Madagascar.

The population of displaced persons also included more than 150000 Jews who had left Central and Eastern Europe due to violence and anti-Semitism.

That year, a law was enacted by Congress that increased immigration quotas to allow in approximately 80000 Jews, who were subject to what Truman called "flagrantly discriminatory" entry qualifications.