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Wilfrid Israel. Sonderausgabe.

出版	Siedler, 1985
ISBN	38868014979783886801497
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=f9oUAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Wilfrid Israel was born in 1899 in London to a wealthy Jewish family, having both English and German roots. The family lived permanently in Berlin, where they owned the large department store N. Israel. Israel became anxious regarding the fate of German Jews in the early 1930s. In 1932 he began to collaborate with Recha Freier's Youth Aliyah in helping Jewish young people emigrate to Eretz Israel. Describes the wanton terror in 1933, when the Nazis attempted to Aryanize Israel's business and he was arrested several times. In 1933-39 he made several proposals for the mass emigration of Jews from Germany to Britain, the USA, and elsewhere; he was an initiator of the Kindertransports to England. During the war, when the British began to intern refugees from Germany, Israel tried to protect the interned refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His stance toward Zionism was ambivalent; nevertheless, in January 1943 he was offered and accepted a position at the Jewish Agency branch in Lisbon, in charge of Jewish refugees living in Spain and Portugal. On 1 June 1943, when he was on a flight from Lisbon to London, his plane was shot down by the Germans.