Rebecca Erbelding

Rebecca Erbelding, historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discusses her research on the War Refugee Board (WRB), the official American response to the Holocaust. Her new book, Rescue Board, debunks the popular idea that Americans did not do anything to aid Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. It shows to the contrary that young WRB staff undertook extraordinary efforts to work through (and sometimes sidestep) bureaucracy to rescue Jews.

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