Mexico’s Semi-Open Door to Jewish WWII Refugees

Dr. Yael Siman, currently a professor researcher at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City, shares accounts of the frantic attempts of European Jews trying to gain entrance to Mexico before and during WWII.

For a memoir in English on this topic, see Bruno Schwebel’s “As Luck Would Have It: My Exile in France and Mexico : Recollections and Stories” at https://www.amazon.com/Recollections-Stories-Austrian-Literature-TRANSLATION/dp/1572411570 (not an affiliate link).

(This interview is in connection with the in-progress book THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST at https://www.millermosaicllc.com/things-you-didnt-know-about-the-holocaust/)