Great Chicago Refugee Rescue (Schwabia)
- Author: Raymond Lohne
- SKU: 1836
- ISBN: 0897253132
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Currently out of print
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Description:
(SCHWABIA) The Great Chicago Refugee Rescue. By Raymond Lohne. 80 photos. Index. 160pp. Soft cover. 2001, 1997.
Picton Press is proud to bring back into print this fascinating account of the little-known rescue from starvation and death in the years immediately after World War II, of thousands of Schwabian Expellees. The first printing sold out quickly.
Descendants of ethnic Germans who were settled in Hungary in 1783, these refugees were forcibly expelled from their centuries-old homeland after Germany lost WWII. The Chicago community of Schwobs banded together, and in the face of enormous political and social pressure, lobbied successfully to be able to bring thousands of their distant kinsmen to America.
A modern-day version of the ethnic migration of Mayflower Pilgrims. Read; enjoy; stretch your mind! Not all emigrants are voluntary; not all American immigration occurred centuries ago.
