Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / Rebecca Erbelding.
Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / Rebecca Erbelding.
Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / Rebecca Erbelding.
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New York : Doubleday, [2018]
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G 2018/2820
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Language
English
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Physical content
368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 -- A...
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2018]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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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 Trea...
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Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / Rebecca Erbelding.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-346) and index.
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Online version: Erbelding, Rebecca. Rescue Board. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2018] 9780385542524 (DLC) 2017040279
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©2018
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G 2018/2820
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74VKVoo2emgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVoo2emgM
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ISBN
0385542518 hardcover
9780385542517 hardcover
DDC
940.53145
MMS ID
991024168914802626
