Image: Jewish refugees at Croydon airport 1939

Description: London, Louise (2000). Whitehall and the Jews, 1933–1948, back cover: "Cover illustration: members of a group of Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia are marched away by police at Croydon airport on 31 March 1939. The refugees were detained at the police station because their documents were not in order. They were put on a flight to Warsaw but threatened to jump out of the window if the plane took off. The pilot refused to fly, so they were deported the following day." The Guardian, 31 March 1939, p. 10: "Refugees who had been refused permission to stay in England figured in a distressing scene at Croydon airport yesterday. They were so distraught that the pilot of their 'plane thought it unwise to leave, and they will be sent to Copenhagen by train and boat."
Title: Jewish refugees at Croydon airport 1939
Credit: London, Louise (2000). Whitehall and the Jews, 1933–1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press, front cover and p. 161.
Author: AP/World Wide Photos (see "Illustrations", London 2000, p. viii.)
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