Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UCLA:L0058308594
America And The Holocaust War Refugee Board Weekly Reports
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America and the Holocaust: Token shipment (Oswego Camp), War Refugee Board "Summary report"
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abandonment of the Jews
ISBN : 0824045424
America and the Holocaust: Token shipment (Oswego Camp), War Refugee Board "Summary report" by David S. Wyman Pdf
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rescue Board
Author : Rebecca Erbelding
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525433743
Rescue Board by Rebecca Erbelding Pdf
Featured 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.” —Debórah 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
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board: special problems
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abandonment of the Jews
ISBN : WISC:89062200480
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board: special problems by David S. Wyman Pdf
America and the Holocaust: War refugee board: Hungary
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abandonment of the Jews
ISBN : WISC:89062200472
America and the Holocaust: War refugee board: Hungary by David S. Wyman Pdf
Final Summary Report of the Executive Director, War Refugee Board
Author : United States. War Refugee Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : UOM:39015011026104
Final Summary Report of the Executive Director, War Refugee Board by United States. War Refugee Board Pdf
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board: basic rescue operations
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abandonment of the Jews
ISBN : WISC:89062200464
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board: basic rescue operations by David S. Wyman Pdf
America and the Holocaust: Confirming the news of extermination
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0824045335
America and the Holocaust: Confirming the news of extermination by David S. Wyman Pdf
Too Little, and Almost Too Late
Author : Rafael Medoff
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 1973705737
Too Little, and Almost Too Late by Rafael Medoff Pdf
In the final, desperate months of the Holocaust, a small U.S. government agency raced against the clock to save Jews from the Nazis. Despite President Franklin D. Roosevelt's disinterest and the State Department's obstruction, the men and women of the War Refugee Board successfully employed unorthodox means of rescue. They bribed border officials, produced forged identification papers, arranged to have Jewish refugees moved out of dangerous regions, and used psychological warfare to disrupt Hungary's cooperation in the deportations to Auschwitz. It was the War Refugee Board that persuaded Raoul Wallenberg to go to Nazi-occupied Budapest, and financed his heroic life-saving activities there. Reflecting later on what they did, the board's senior staff lamented that their efforts came "almost too late" and achieved "too little." Yet the War Refugee Board played a major role in the rescue of an estimated 200,000 Jewish refugees. Too Little, and Almost Too Late is the first scholarly book about this extraordinary and little-known chapter in the history of the Holocaust. It demonstrates how even a handful of good people can make a real difference. Too Little, and Almost Too Late was authored by noted Holocaust historian Dr. Rafael Medoff, with additional essays by other leading scholars in the field of America's response to the Holocaust. The foreword is by Prof. Walter Reich, former executive director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board "Weekly reports"
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : IND:30000131029583
America and the Holocaust: War Refugee Board "Weekly reports" by David S. Wyman Pdf
Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941 by David S. Wyman Pdf
“Paper Walls was the first scholarly book to deal with the question of America’s response to the Nazi assault on the European Jews. A revised version of my Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University, it was originally published in 1968... Those times were very different from these. There was little public receptivity to Holocaust studies then, and only limited academic interest... The scholarly reviews, of which there were several, were favorable. But the general press paid little attention to the book... A pioneer in its field, Paper Walls first established the thesis that three features of American society in the 1930’s and 1940’s were key to understanding the nation’s inadequate response to the refugee crisis. They were anti-Semitism, nativistic nationalism, and the unemployment problem of the Great Depression. This basic concept has been followed in all the succeeding scholarly literature on the topic. This concept is also the main legacy from Paper Walls to my more recent book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (1984). AlthoughAbandonment stands as a complete study in its own right, it is in fact the sequel toPaper Walls. It is a continuation of the history of America’s reaction to the plight of the European Jews in the Nazi era.” — David S. Wyman, Preface to the 1985 paperback edition of Paper Walls “[A] thorough study of American refugee policy from 1938 to 1941... On the basis of Wyman’s book, the United States stands indicted for a tragic failure to live up to its nineteenth-century ideal of asylum... Though Wyman makes no effort to disguise his strong sympathy for the refugees, his book... gives a careful and well-documented history of American refugee policy... The state department — above all Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long — emerges from his pages as the primary culprit... The attitude displayed by... the foreign service... led to the creation of the paper walls that Wyman so honestly and tragically describes in this important book.” — Robert A. Divine, Journal of American History “The first scholarly examination of American refugee policy between 1938 and 1941... What Wyman sets out to do he does extremely well. Paper Walls is a worthwhile addition to our growing knowledge of the policy of those who bore witness to the Holocaust.” — Henry L. Feingold, American Jewish Historical Quarterly “No one who reads this book will be able to ignore the fact that blatant antisemitism in the United States — from the public, from Congress, and from within the State Department — prevented our government from giving more than minimal assistance to the Jewish refugees... Professor Wyman has done an immense amount of research in primary and secondary sources and Paper Walls is extraordinarily sound and superbly documented. It is tightly written, well-organized, and logically presented.” — Leonard Dinnerstein, Jewish Social Studies “The conclusions of the book are stark and simple: ‘The half-filled quotas of mid-1940 to mid-1941, when refugee rescue remained entirely feasible, symbolize 20,000 to 25,000 lives lost...’ In the eight years from 1933 to 1941, about 250,000 refugees found safety here. The total is not small, but neither is the country which received them.” — Raul Hilberg, Political Science Quarterly “Generally [President Roosevelt] left refugee policy to the disposition of a hostile Congress and the State Department. Yet, as the author points out, neither Roosevelt, the State Department, nor Congress can be blamed entirely for what happened. ‘Viewed within the context of its times, United States refugee policy from 1938 to the end of 1941 was essentially what the American people wanted.’ In December 1938 only 8.7 per cent of the respondents to a Roper poll favored entry of a larger number of European refugees than the quota law allowed; fully 83 per cent were flatly opposed. This book tells a dismal story. While it is dear where the author’s sympathies lie, he tells the story with restraint; if anything, his approach and writing style underplay the pathos involved... Wyman has given us a scholarly description and analysis of the first act of the tragedy, which he promises to carry on through the war and postwar years.” — J. Joseph Huthmacher, The American Historical Review “This thoroughly documented study of the United States policies in regard to the refugee crisis of 1938-1941 is the best available source in this field and on that period. Drawing on material from some well known as well as several previously untapped sources, Wyman discusses both the ambiguous role of particular figures and organizations and the underlying forces at work in American society which influenced governmental policy and practices; anti-semitism, nativism, fear of unemployment and of Nazi subversives are shown as the major pressure to which America’s people and leaders succumbed.” — Joseph S. Roucek, The International Migration Review “This is a depressing topic impressively researched. Professor Wyman has investigated almost all the relevant primary and secondary materials in order to recount the tragic story of America’s indifference to the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Hitler’s Europe... Over two-thirds of Americans desired to keep the Jewish refugees out of the United Stales. Wyman argues that this sentiment was due to three sources: ‘nativism, anti-Semitism, and economic insecurity’... There is enough evidence in Wyman’s book to cause the Statue of Liberty to collapse for lack of moral foundation.” — John P. Diggins, The Historian “Professor Wyman skillfully investigates and thoughtfully analyzes the complexities of the crisis and the reasons why more was not done to aid the refugees in the crucial period between 1938 and 1941... The author examines the problem thoroughly from a number of standpoints... The State Department, the Congress, and the President really were reflecting the attitudes of the American people, who, Wyman asserts, were indifferent and even antagonistic to the refugees [because of] the economic insecurity engendered by the depression, nativistic nationalism, and anti-Semitism. A well-researched and lucidly, if not dispassionately, written book, Paper Walls is a sound, workmanlike study of a significant episode in our nation’s recent past.” — E. Berkeley Tompkins, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
America and the Holocaust: Bombing Auschwitz and the Auschwitz escapees' report
Author : David S. Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abandonment of the Jews
ISBN : WISC:89062200514
America and the Holocaust: Bombing Auschwitz and the Auschwitz escapees' report by David S. Wyman Pdf
Refugees in an Age of Genocide
Author : Katharine Knox,Tony Kushner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136313196
Refugees in an Age of Genocide by Katharine Knox,Tony Kushner Pdf
This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.
FDR and the Jews
Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674073678
FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman Pdf
A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.
Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism
Author : Elliott Robert Barkan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351513364
Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism by Elliott Robert Barkan Pdf
Immigration, Incorporation and Transition is an intriguing collection of articles and essays. It was developed to commemorate the twenty-fi fth anniversary of The Journal of American Ethnic History. Its purpose, like that of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives and exciting new scholarship on important themes and issues related to immigration and ethnic history.