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- Title
Marriages of Convenience as a Strategy to Escape to the UK.
- Authors
Messinger, Irene
- Abstract
Little is known about the phenomena of marriages of convenience during the Nazi era. These marriages allowed persecuted women to flee from the Third Reich to a country of exile, to ensure their stay there or to prevent deportation, by marrying a foreign national for papers only. This article will introduce and analyse twelve cases of Jewish women who managed to escape to the UK by entering into a marriage of convenience. Their stories underline the importance of pre-existing networks, be it family members or politically like-minded people, as an active part in escaping from the Nazi regime.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MARRIAGES of convenience; EXILES; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; WOMEN refugees; SOCIAL networks; JEWISH women; SOCIAL conditions of women; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Yearbook of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, 2017, Vol 18, p81
- ISSN
1388-3720
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004343528_008