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05035aam a2200517Ii 4500 001 65CA1AEE7EB211E9A915C61697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190525010015 008 190426r20192018nyuaf b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0525433740 020 $a 9780525433743 035 $a (OCoLC)1099265490 040 $a LJW $b eng $c LJW $d SILO 100 1 $a Erbelding, Rebecca, $e author. 245 10 $a Rescue board : $b the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe / $c Rebecca Erbelding. 246 3 $a Untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe 250 $a First Anchor Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-368) and index. 505 0 $a 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 -- Adrift -- Midnight sun -- What kind of peace -- A coup in Hungary -- McClelland's report -- War at Christmas -- Prisoner exchanges -- Packages -- Liberation -- Afterword. 520 $a "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 a meeting with the president. For more than a decade, the Jews of Germany had sought refuge in the United States and had been stymied by Congress's harsh immigration policy. Now the State Department was refusing to authorize relief funds Pehle wanted to use to help Jews escape Nazi territory. At the meeting, Pehle made his best case--and prevailed. Within days, FDR created the War Refugee Board, empowering it to rescue the victims of Nazi persecution, and put John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, pirates, diplomats, millionaires, confidence men, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, smuggled food into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and ships to transport Romanian refugees to Palestine. Altogether, they saved tens of thousands of lives. In Rescue Board, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar Rebecca Erbelding uses unrivaled access to archival materials and fresh interviews with survivors to tell the dramatic unknown story of America's last-ditch effort to save the Jews of Europe"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a January 1944. For more than a decade, the Jews of Germany had sought refuge in the United States and been stymied by Congress's harsh immigration policy. At the meeting treasury lawyer John Pehle made his best case-- and FDR created the War Refugee Board. Over the next twenty months a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, pirates, diplomats, millionaires, confidence men, and rabble-rousers tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, smuggled food into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. Erbelding uses archival materials and interviews with survivors to tell the dramatic unknown story of America's last-ditch effort to save the Jews of Europe. -- adapted from jacket. 610 10 $a United States. $b War Refugee Board. 610 17 $a United States. $b War Refugee Board. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00589101 611 27 $a Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710189 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Refugees. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Rescue $x Rescue $z Europe. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. 650 7 $a HISTORY $x Holocaust. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Europe $x Western. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Refugees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092797 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 4 $a Europe. 651 4 $a United States. 648 7 $a 1933-1945 $2 fast 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012710.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190525010621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65CA1AEE7EB211E9A915C61697128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search