Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Soviet Union despite the risk of losing

despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved

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and redemption

against his government's orders

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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Soviet Union despite the risk of losingBy Rebecca Erbelding 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,