ABSTRACT

Nazi authorities increasingly took to coercing Jews to emigrate, despite the new barriers facing potential migrants after the Evian Conference. On October 28, 1938, after a Polish attempt to deprive Polish Jews of the right of return from countries under German rule, the Nazis ordered the deportation of 17,000 Polish Jews. In many places Jews were physically attacked. Ninety-one Jews were killed during the pogrom, and more than 900 synagogues were destroyed. The Post also devoted much attention to efforts to find refuge for Jews from central and eastern Europe, a subject that it had extensively covered even before Kristallnacht. The denouement of these proposals came on November 22,1938. The Jewish Agency Executive published a statement requesting the immediate entry into Palestine of 100,000 German, Austrian, and Czech Jews. The World Jewish Congress protested the new restrictions on Jewish immigration and called on the Mandatory government to take the necessary steps to rescue threatened Jews.