The Evian Conference on Refugees is convened in France

When

6 Jul 1938

Kind

Event

Coordinates

33.36° N, 84.54° W

Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Évian.

The Evian Conference on Refugees is convened in France. No country in Europe is prepared to accept Jews fleeing persecution, and the United States will take only 27,370.

Conference addressing a Jewish refugee crisis

The Évian Conference was convened 6–15 July 1938 at Évian-les-Bains, France, to address the problem of German and Austrian Jewish refugees wishing to flee persecution by Nazi Germany. It was the initiative of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt who perhaps hoped to obtain commitments from some of the invited nations to accept more refugees, although he took pains to avoid stating that objective expressly.

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