Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Rebecca Erbelding
Rebecca Erbelding's Rescue Board is a detailed history of the War Refugee Board, a small government agency created by the Roosevelt administration in January 1944. Cobbled out of Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s Treasury Department, it was the most important and sustained effort by the United States...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 438-439 |
| Review of: | Rescue Board (New York : Doubleday, 2018) (Hochberg, Severin A.)
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| Summary: | Rebecca Erbelding's Rescue Board is a detailed history of the War Refugee Board, a small government agency created by the Roosevelt administration in January 1944. Cobbled out of Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s Treasury Department, it was the most important and sustained effort by the United States to rescue Jews and other victims of Nazism during the Holocaust. The book is in many ways an impressive achievement. Erbelding explores every facet of the Board's initiatives during the short period of its existence, and remains clear-eyed and realistic about its successes and failures. She brings to life the oddball group of WRB overseas representatives such as Ira Hirschmann in Istanbul, Roswell McClelland in Geneva, and Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz050 |