What happened to British Jews during the Holocaust?

Question

Just wondering cause I've only ever heard about Poles & Romanians etc being killed but never anything about here...

Answer 1

The Poles and the Romanians were sent to the death camps because their countries had been invaded by the Germans!
The British Jews err..... lived in Britain, and Britain had not been invaded so the Germans could not send them to the death camps.
Easy if you think about it!
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Answer 2

British Jews fought along with many other denominations against the German, Italian and Japanese forces. The only concession to the standard was that a code was used on the dogtags each soldier had which ensured they could not be identified as Jewish at once and had some chance of entering the POW system if captured.
However British Civilians and Armed Personnel where sent to the Concentration Camps. The worst atrocities are thse that are little recorded against the Channel Islanders. Many of the people there where uprooted and sent to the continent as forced labour and / or sent to the camps as undesirable or disruptive persons.
If the Germans had sucessfully either forced a surrender of these isles, or invaded, then the SS had a very long list of persons to arrest at once (execute on the spot if possible in some cases) and deport to the Greater Reich.
As for the Jewish Residents and Refugees still here, there would have been the standard rules as stipulated in the Nuremburg Laws enacted on the Country and in due time a round up and deportation of the same when the time was right. The Nazis idea for the rest of the population was very much along the lines of Vichy, Norway and Denmark, a light hand for most, but for those that resisted a harsh punishment. Certainley the reprisals seen in some of the occupied countries would not have happened here to start with. If there had been an organised resistance from overseas (i.e. USA or goverment in exile supplying arms) then the treatments would have esculated as resistance grew, just like in the occupied zones of Europe.

Answer 3

British Jews were safe from the Holocaust, but as most of them lived in the East End of London, they were in the same danger of being bombed as was everyone else. The Poles were famous for being fearless pilots - completely mad. l am sure Jews and Romanians played their part, but nothing is ever told about what they did.....

Answer 4

British Jews, that is Jews living in Britain who were British Subjects [citizens], were not themselves involved in the Holocaust. Their role was exactly the same as the rest of us, to fight in the war in whatever capacity they were able and to join in sharing our allied victory over the tyranny of Nazism.

At the outbreak of WW2 thousands of people classified as 'undesireable aliens', Germans, Italians etc., were rounded up. The Italians were kept on the Isle of Man in camps built behind barbed wire, for the duration of the war.

The Germans, many of whom were Jews, were sent by ship to Australia and interred there.

Let's be straight about this. There was no Holocaust here in UK. The Holocaust or Final Solution, was the mass murder of six million innocent Jews by the Nazis, the SS/Gestpo.

You can find out something of the Holocaust and the herosim if you read the "Diary of Ann Frank". She was a Dutch girl who hid from the Nazis with other family members, but who were later betrayed to the Nazis. Ann and her family were sent to a 'death camp'. I think Ann died of typhus.

In addition to the six million murdered Jews. The Nazis also murdered about two million Gentiles - Gypsies, Poles, Russians and so on. On top of this, the Nazis also murdered about 2 million Russian [Red Army] prisoners of war - mostly they were either starved to death or systematically worked to death.

WE WILL REMEMEMBER THEM.

Answer 5

Nothing happened to the British Jews because Germany never invaded Britain! Plus, British jews were pretty rare in the days, so superstion was not exactly high either.

Answer 6

As the name suggests, British Jews live in England and were therefore safe from the Germans. Like other people, those of age enlisted in the British Army or other arm of the services I would imagine. Like Jews in many parts of Europe after the war many moved to Israel and were involved in setting up the state.

Answer 7

Britain was never invaded by the Nazis so British Jews were safe. Many enlisted in the British armed services because Nazi invasion would have meant certain death for them.

Some Jewish refugees from Europe reached Britain and were able to escape the Holocaust, including six German Jewish children (from two different families) to whom my parents were foster parents.

Answer 8

As Britain mainland was not invaded then British Jews were not deported. However, there have been reports of several Jewish people being deported from British islands - such as Guernsey to concentration camps.

Answer 9

Being in Britain which was never occupied by the Nazis British Jews were safe from persecution, though some have gone to Israel after its formation.

Answer 10

Nothing happened to them, provided they werent in a country invaded by the Germans.

As the Nazis didnt invade britain, nothing could have happened to them same with American, Canadian, Swiss, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Maltese and Swedish Jews.

Oswald Mosely tried to whip up fascism in Britain during the 1930's with his Blackshirts movement, but he never got a great deal of support, and was locked up during the war.