The Uprooted - A Hitler Legacy
On page 119 of the book Uprooted: A HITLER LEGACY: VOICES OF THOSE WHO ESCAPED BEFORE "FINAL SOLUTION"
And from Images of Europe: An Israeli Perspective by Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Haifa, Israel - in a paper presented at the European Commission conference, 'Intercultural Dialogue', Brussels, 20-21 Mar 2002:
Funny people, the Europeans, my paternal grandfather used to joke. When I left it in 1937, there was graffiti on the walls everywhere: 'Jews, go to Palestine'. And now when I visit a European capital, the graffiti says 'Jews, get out of Palestine'. Have they no memory, the Europeans?
So if everyone was asking them to go why didn't the Jews simply leave Germany and Austria and go to Palestine? Well simply, Palestine was closed to the Jews by the British. As for other countries to escape to, the Allies at the Evian Conference refused to open the doors of their respective countries to Jewish refugees consigning them instead to Nazi prison camps. In response, Chaim Weizmann was quoted in The Manchester Guardian as saying: "The world seemed to be divided into two parts - those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter." [Wiki]
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