One Life is the new film telling the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who, working with colleagues from the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC), organised for 669 refugee children in Czechoslovakia to find safe homes in Great Britain in 1939 as war loomed in Europe.
As you say, "It’s a double hit: not only are we under greater attack, but we are less likely to get support." I'm not Jewish (so it's not "we" for me), but I'm not blind.
Winton himself was born to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Germany and converted to Christianity when Winton was a child and changed the family name from Wertheim. Why the rescue of Jewish children wasn't prioritized is hard to fathom, other than for the usual reason, I'd guess.
The invisible Jew in World War II stories about refugees is as old as World War II itself. The worst offender - the beloved “Casablanca,” a story about escaping the Nazis in which not a single would be escapee is Jewish
As you say, "It’s a double hit: not only are we under greater attack, but we are less likely to get support." I'm not Jewish (so it's not "we" for me), but I'm not blind.
Winton himself was born to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Germany and converted to Christianity when Winton was a child and changed the family name from Wertheim. Why the rescue of Jewish children wasn't prioritized is hard to fathom, other than for the usual reason, I'd guess.
The invisible Jew in World War II stories about refugees is as old as World War II itself. The worst offender - the beloved “Casablanca,” a story about escaping the Nazis in which not a single would be escapee is Jewish