Was refugee board

The War Refugee Board was an inter-ministerial US government agency set up under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944 to help victims of the Nazi dictatorship, especially Jewish refugees, worldwide. Finance , interior and war ministries were equally represented and involved.

Its establishment can be seen as a consequence of the Allied Declaration against the extermination of the Jews of Europe of December 1942 and the knowledge of the Allies about it.

The War Refugee Board, a committee for war refugees , had branches in Turkey , Switzerland , Sweden , Portugal , Great Britain , Italy and North Africa. The government's share of $ 1 million was the smallest part of the financial resources deployed; the political share in the actions was important. Its executive directors were John W. Pehle and Brigadier General William O'Dwyer . The Swiss branch was headed by Roswell McClelland .

literature

• Yehuda Bauer : My Brother's Keeper. A History of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1929-1939; The Jewish Publication Society of America. Philadelphia 1974; ISBN 0-8276-0048-8

Web links

• Yad Vashem Shoah Research Center (English; PDF file; 32 kB)
• Jewish Virtual Library - Entry on the War Refugee Board (English)
• Executive Order Creating War Refugee Board at the Jewish Virtual Library (English)
• Yad Vashem Chronology of the Holocaust 1942–1945 (English)
• PBS America and the Holocaust (English)
• LexisNexis Papers of the War Refugee Board (English; PDF file; 573 kB)
• LexisNexis Papers of the War Refugee Board Part 2 (English; PDF file; 432 kB)
• PBS establishment of the War Refugee Board (English)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : Holocaust Encyclopedia - Article: War Refugee Board (updated May 20, 2008), Washington, DC (Illuminates contribution by Henry Morgenthau , Jr. (Treasury Secretary) and associates Randolph Paul, Josiah DuBois, Jr. and Foreign Funds Control chief John Pehle and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee . Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers. Biography. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed January 16, 2018 .