Abstract
ABSTRACT How did Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Europe relate to colonial regimes in Africa? While the scholarly studies of Nazism and European colonialism usually belong to separate academic fields, this article by Cassen examines their intersection through the story of the author’s grandparents, Henri and Pola Katzengold, who survived the Holocaust by fleeing to the Belgian Congo. In the Congo, where white people constituted the ruling class, they experienced a sudden transition from being hunted by Nazis in Europe to becoming Belgian colonialists. But while their whiteness gave them power and status over black Africans, their Jewishness rendered their privilege ambiguous, relegating them to the margins of white colonial society. Using the memoir of the author’s grandmother as a source, this article provides a window into understanding racism and social relations between different groups in the Belgian colony during the Second World War.
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