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Erbelding, Rebecca.
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United States. War Refugee Board.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Europe.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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Erbelding, Rebecca.
United States. War Refugee Board.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Europe.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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Rescue
board
: the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / Rebecca Erbelding.
by
Erbelding, Rebecca.
Doubleday, 2018.
Call #:
940.53145 E657r
Subjects
United
States
.
War
Refugee
Board
.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Europe.
United
States
-- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9780385542517 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
368 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-346) and index.
Contents:
Two wars -- Revelation -- John Pehle -- State Department hubris -- On the acquiescence of this government -- A
War
Refugee
Board
-- Getting started -- Hirschmann in Turkey -- Warnings -- Protective papers -- Blood for goods -- Free ports -- Whether to bomb, whether to ransom -- The Horthy offer -- Adrift -- Midnight sun -- What kind of peace -- A coup in Hungary -- McClelland's report --
War
at Christmas -- Prisoner exchanges -- Packages -- Liberation -- Afterword.
Summary:
"America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the
War
Refugee
Board
, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the
war
to save the Jews who remained. In January 1944, a young Treasury lawyer named John Pehle accompanied his boss to a meeting with the president. For more than a decade, the Jews of Germany had sought refuge in the
United
States
and had been stymied by Congress's harsh immigration policy. Now the State Department was refusing to authorize relief funds Pehle wanted to use to help Jews escape Nazi territory. At the meeting, Pehle made his best case--and prevailed. Within days, FDR created the
War
Refugee
Board
, empowering it to rescue the victims of Nazi persecution, and put John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, pirates, diplomats, millionaires, confidence men, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, smuggled food into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and ships to transport Romanian refugees to Palestine. Altogether, they saved tens of thousands of lives. In Rescue
Board
, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar Rebecca Erbelding uses unrivaled access to archival materials and fresh interviews with survivors to tell the dramatic unknown story of America's last-ditch effort to save the Jews of Europe"--From publisher.
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