Name: Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America's Response to the Holocaust
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Author: Medoff, Rafael
ISBN: 9781973705734

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Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America's Response to the Holocaust

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Physical Book

Author

Rafael Medoff

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

330

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.8 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781973705734

Synopsis "Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America's Response to the Holocaust "

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.

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