Jews may only live in town, not in the countryside. Jews cannot own or farm land. Jewish landowners, farmers or labourers will be expelled from their Jewish homes – this would affect many Jews because many of them lived in the countryside and had jobs on farms. So this law caused them to be thrown out of their house with no job.
Jews will be limited in number at school and university to 5% of all students – this law would make Jews want to leave this Country because the Jews would want the best for their children. They would want them to get a good education so they could go onto get a good job.
Jews will not be allowed to hold government jobs – Jews would not like this law because if no Jews could have a job in the government then how were they supposed to get these laws changed.
So now that you can see why the Russian Jews had no chance but to flee Russia, You must be wondering why they chose Britain? In source B they show that it was a simple choice to choose Britain for many reasons such as, unlike Russia there were no pogroms taking place. Also there were plenty of people willing to give the Jewish immigrants a chance by letting them buy houses and even hire them in good jobs. There were also many places where the Jews could socialise and worship. But the major factor must have been that Britain already had a large population of Jews (Anglo-Jews) this led to many people leaving for social reasons. There were also many Jews that just wanted to use Britain as a stepping stone before moving over to America. They intended to come over to Britain may be earn some money somehow until finally moving onto America.
The next significant group of people who chose to migrate to Britain were also Jews who came during World War 1 and World War 2 from Germany. In World War 1 the Jews were escaping persecution from the German king (Kaiser). In the Second World War they were again trying to escape persecution from another German leader this time a man called Hitler who was killing a significant number of Jews because of their race.
Another large number of people that migrated over to Britain were the polish fighter pilots who migrated over to Britain when their country was attacked in 1939. Source C shows that the polish pilots actually accounted for one-tenth of the enemy aircraft shot down. When the war was over they had the chance to move back over to their homeland but with Poland now being a communist country many never got round to doing this for political reasons.
The next group of people who migrated to Britain were 492 people who came over on a ship called “The empire wind rush”. The people on board this ship were actually the first group of West Indian immigrants that had ever migrated to Britain. They had been asked by Britain to come over to help Britain to fill many jobs that could not be filled because of the loss of men in World War 2. The arrival of these Jamaicans excited journalists, politicians and celebrities who gathered to greet them. There was later a film made about how the Jamaicans who had made the long journey across the ocean for a fare of £28.10 had helped our country on its way.
After this, the period 1948 to the present day there has still been massive numbers of people that have migrated to Britain such as the Polish, Kosavans, Afghans and Iraqi’s many of these are fleeing over to our country every day for a better live, whether it be fleeing war in their country or just for social reasons, either way it is happening around us every day
By Sam Morgan