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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525433743)
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xFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding pieces together years of research and newly uncovered archival materials to tell the dramatic story of America's little-known efforts to save the Jews of Europe.
"An invaluable addition to the literature of the Holocaust." --Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters and Hitlerland
"Brilliantly brings to life the gripping, little-known story of [a] transformative moment in American history and the crusading young government lawyers who made it happen." --Lynne Olson, New York Times bestselling author of Last Hope Island
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board, and put a young Treasury lawyer named John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, smugglers, diplomats, millionaires, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, maneuvered food and medicine into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, laundered money, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and sliced red tape to allow Jewish refugees to escape to Palestine. "A landmark achievement, Rescue Board is the first history of the War Refugee Board. Meticulously researched and poignantly narrated, Rescue Board analyzes policies and practices while never losing sight of the human beings involved: the officials who sought to help and the victims in desperate need. Top-notch history: original and riveting." --Debah Dwork, founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, and coauthor of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946
Author: Rebecca Erbelding
ISBN-10: 0525433740
ISBN-13: 9780525433743
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
"An invaluable addition to the literature of the Holocaust." --Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters and Hitlerland
"Brilliantly brings to life the gripping, little-known story of [a] transformative moment in American history and the crusading young government lawyers who made it happen." --Lynne Olson, New York Times bestselling author of Last Hope Island
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board, and put a young Treasury lawyer named John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, smugglers, diplomats, millionaires, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, maneuvered food and medicine into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, laundered money, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and sliced red tape to allow Jewish refugees to escape to Palestine. "A landmark achievement, Rescue Board is the first history of the War Refugee Board. Meticulously researched and poignantly narrated, Rescue Board analyzes policies and practices while never losing sight of the human beings involved: the officials who sought to help and the victims in desperate need. Top-notch history: original and riveting." --Debah Dwork, founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, and coauthor of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946
Author: Rebecca Erbelding
ISBN-10: 0525433740
ISBN-13: 9780525433743
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
By Rebecca Erbelding
xRebecca Erbelding is an archivist, curator, and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She has a PhD in American history from George Mason University. She and her work have been profiled in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and featured on the History Channel, NPR, and other media outlets.
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