The Transfer Agreement
Subtitle: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
Publisher: Brookline Books
Published: October 5, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781571290779
Subjects: Jewish - General; Religion; History Of Zionist Movement; History - General History; Judaism - General; Jews; Holocaust; Europe - Germany; Germany; Zionism; 1933-1945; Haavara; History
First sentence: On August 7, 1933, leaders of the Zionist movement concluded a secret and controversial pact with the Third Reich which in its various forms transferred some 60,000 Jews and $100 million to Jewish Palestine.
Description: "The Transfer Agreement is the stunning, compassionate account of the "deal with the devil" that saved 60,000 Jews from the Holocaust. The deal was made in desperation in 1933 between the Jewish leadership in Palestine and the Third Reich. The terms: that the Jewish-led boycott of German goods would cease in return for the transfer of German Jews to the Holy Land. Eventually one-tenth of Germany's Jews were saved, thus helping to form the seedbed of modern Israel."--BOOK JACKET.

"Edwin Black reveals for the first time the inside details of the controversial pact and recreates the drama: the personalities, the cliff-hanger negotiations, and the anguish of world Jewry over their choice. And Black does more. He provides a true understanding of Israel's founding and the heartbreaking realities of the Jew's plight in Hitler's Europe."--BOOK JACKET.