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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Ef- 0385542518, Erbelding, hardcover
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- Artist
- Erbelding, Rebecca
- ISBN
- 9780385542517
- Book Title
- Rescue Board : the Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Holocaust, Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Europe / Western
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 22.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD 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. 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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385542518
ISBN-13
9780385542517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240282670
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rescue Board : the Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Europe / Western
Publication Year
2018
Genre
History
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D809.U5e73 2015
Reviews
"In early 1944, after years of indifference to the fate of European Jews, the U.S. government took the astonishing step of creating an agency whose only purpose was to save the lives of Jews not yet swallowed up by the Holocaust. With her magisterial research, Rebecca Erbelding brilliantly brings to life the gripping, little-known story of this 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 "It wasn't until late in World War II that the Roosevelt Administration finally made a concerted effort to save thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe--after millions had already perished. In Rescue Board , Erbelding has produced a richly detailed, highly nuanced account of this little known chapter in history. This is an invaluable addition to the literature of the Holocaust." --Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters and Hitlerland "A landmark achievement, Rescue Board is the first history of the War Refugee Board, America's official initiative to rescue Europe's Jews during the Holocaust. 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." --Debrah Dwork, founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, and author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews 1933-1946 "Engagingly written, Rescue Board homes in on the individuals who managed to save the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. A must read for anyone concerned with the refugee crises of World War II and today." --Marion Kaplan, author of Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany "Erbelding's account--both infuriating and inspiring--reveals a disturbingly timely history of the tragically last-minute but not entirely vain efforts of an unlikely band of government bureaucrats to rescue the remnants of European Jewry. This important book, taut as a thriller and historically authoritative, deepens our understanding of the American response to the Holocaust as well as the excruciating obstacles and crucial opportunities confronting citizens committed to saving victims of war and genocide." --Atina Grossmann, author of Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-039969
Dewey Decimal
940.53/145
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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