1944-? War Refugee Board

Attachments

1943 The Treasury Department issued a license to the World Jewish Congress to use funds in the United States to pay some of the costs of evacuating Jews from Romania and France.
1944 Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews (retitled as the Personal Report to the President)
Agencies of the United States government during World War II
Establishments by United States executive order
Organizations which rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
The Holocaust and the United States
US President Franklin D Roosevelt

1944 John Pehle of the War Refugee Board and Benjamin Akzin, a Zionist activist in America, urged the United States Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy to bomb the camps.
1944 The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a U.S. executive agency to aid civilian victims of the Nazi and Axis powers.
As a close personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Morgenthau was influential in convincing the president to take a more active roll in supporting World War II refugees through the creation of the War Refugee Board.
John Pehle
John W. Pehle