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Passionate Crusaders : How Members of the U.S. War Refugee Board Saved Jews and Altered American Foreign Policy During World War II / Heather Voight.
- Title
- Passionate Crusaders : How Members of the U.S. War Refugee Board Saved Jews and Altered American Foreign Policy During World War II / Heather Voight.
- Author
- Voight, Heather.
- Publication
- [United States] : Heather Voight, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D809.U5 V65 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 198 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A plan of inaction: The United States government's track record on Jewish rescue, 1941-43 -- A call to action: The Treasury Department report on Jewish rescue -- FDR's belated plan of action: The creation of the war refugee board, January 1944 -- Theoretical V. real power: Limitations on the WRB's authority -- Negotiating with the enemy: The WRB's response to rescue offers for jews -- A new kind of warfare: The WRB's use of propaganda and threats -- The WRB in Turkey: The accomplishments of field representative Ira Hirschmann -- The WRB in Sweden: The accomplishments of field representative Iver Olsen -- The WRB in Switzerland: The accomplishments of field representative Roswell McClelland -- The one-man rescue operation: Raoul Wallenberg -- Excuses, excuses: The war department's jurtifications for not bombing the camps -- Free ports for humans: Fort Ontario -- Other methods of relief: The WRB and the food parcel program -- Conclusions: An evaluation of the WRB's accomplishments.
- ISBN
- 9780990305200
- 0990305201
- LCCN
- ^^2016304182
- OCLC
- 919002572
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library