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Includes bibliographical references and index. xiv, 314 pages ; 23 cm

"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 ...

1st ed. x, 278 pages ; 22 cm.

Focuses on the activities of Hillel Kook, a Palestinian Jew who spent World War II in the USA, under the adopted name of Peter Bergson, trying to convince the USA and Britain that saving Jewish lives should be a war aim. After failing to persuade the Allies to establish a Jewish army, in 1943 Bergson founded the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which used high visibility tactics ...

One of the most remarkable and stirring episodes of World War II involved a young Swede from a distinguished banking family named Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg had watched the progress of the war and the treatment of the Jews from his neutral country with growing horror and the burning ambition to do something. When in June of 1944 he was approached to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being ...

The legendary image of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a liberal and humanitarian president who was concerned for the downtrodden conflicts with his response to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry. During the years of Nazi rule in Germany, the Roosevelt administration ignored the plight of European Jews, obstructed opportunities for their rescue, closed the country's doors before refugees (ca. 190,000 ...