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1. The American Friends Service Committee Organizing a Rescue Network
non-Jewish refugees with immigration and resettlement to the United States. An American Friends ... efforts, their work with refugees, and for their overall promotion of peace, the American Friends Service
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2. Max and Fanny Valfer
/courtesy Bergman family. By the time Max and Fanny Valfer applied for American immigration visas in ... Document courtesy of the FDR library. The Valfers were never formally denied American visas and were ... In Danger Max and Fanny Valfer Max and Fanny Valfer were among the 6,504 Jews from Southwest ... the United States. Fanny and Max Valfer, 1934. Photograph courtesy of Ruth Valfer Bergman Archives
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3. Martha and Waitstill Sharp Two Rescue Missions
gathered Jewish refugees that the offices were not American territory, and the Unitarians were not an ... year later, the Sharps left their children again and returned to Europe. The American Unitarian ... Waitstill Sharp were the second and third Americans to be designated as “Righteous Among the Nations ... Americans Who Dared Martha and Waitstill Sharp Two Rescue Missions Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian
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4. Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children
Americans Who Dared Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children In January 1939, the Jewish ... Vienna to choose the children and bring them to the United States to live with foster families. They ... Museum. American lawyer Gilbert Kraus, his wife Eleanor, and their two young children led a comfortable ... Kristallnacht attacks in Germany, the American Jewish fraternal organization Brith Sholom contacted the Krauses
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5. The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children to Safety
and American bureaucracies in order to rescue refugee children. The children had to travel from France ... Americans Who Dared The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children ... and Portugal between 1940 and 1945. Emblem of the United States Committee for the Care of European ... invade Great Britain, some Americans mobilized to evacuate British children to the United States. This
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6. How Many Refugees Came to the United States from 1933-1945?
people hoping to escape Nazi Germany and enter the United States? Learn how many people were able to ... leave Europe, how many people remained on the waiting list, and how immigration to the United States
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7. What did Refugees Need to Obtain a US Visa in the 1930s?
papers to leave Germany, and US immigration visas were difficult to obtain. The process could take years. ... What did Refugees Need to Obtain a US Visa in the 1930s? It was difficult to get the necessary
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8. Main
Main This exhibition examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses ... to Nazism, war, and genocide.
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9. Breckinridge Long
November 1942, American newspapers and magazines printed reports of the Nazi regime’s plan to murder ... European Jews. Some Americans wrote passionate letters and telegrams to the State Department expressing ... immigration easier, and resented any criticism of the State Department, particularly by Jewish organizations ... secretary of State during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and, while in Washington, befriended future
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10. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
through the Lend-Lease Act and converting American factories from making consumer goods to making military ... and President Truman that American lawyer Earl Harrison should tour Germany and Austria to survey the ... ’s secretary of the treasury and close friend, was the only Jewish member of the cabinet. Protective of his ... White House and demand, as one of his colleagues called it, “a new deal.” Secretary of the Treasury
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11. Richard Schifter
guaranteed that the immigrant would not become a financial burden (or “public charge”) and were ... World War I, tax documents, and all the other official documents the family needed to present at the US ... consulate in Vienna to obtain immigration visas to the United States. US immigration law classified and ... or Austria, while Paul and Balbina had to seek two of the only 6,524 visas available for people born
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12. Stephen Wise
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ... stores that sold German goods and urged Americans not to support these stores. The boycott lasted ... democracy, Wise helped found the American Jewish Congress, a nationwide organization of Jewish leaders ... established to “defend Jewish interests at home and abroad.” In 1936, he founded the World
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13. Varian Fry Emergency Escape
to save the victims from this brutality.” Fry, and many other American intellectuals, were ... 1940, the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization, sent American journalist ... ,000 people, including a number of prominent writers and artists, escape France and emigrate to the United ... man brutally kicked and spat upon as he lay on the sidewalk, a woman bleeding, a man whose head was
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14. Anthony Acevedo
battle was particularly brutal for the 600,000 Americans who fought, and tens of thousands of Americans ... surrounded and captured the surviving Americans near Philippsbourg, France, forcing them to remove their ... after Tony’s arrival, German soldiers lined up the American POWs and selected those they believed ... to be “undesirable.” The Nazis asked Jewish American soldiers to identify themselves and
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15. Charles Coughlin
Catholic priest and radio celebrity based in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan. His sermons, aired ... on Sundays, often featured populist, anti-Communist, and antisemitic claims. At the peak of his ... after his church, The Shrine of the Little Flower, and he called its listeners his “radio ... gratitude and opposing many of the administration’s policies, Coughlin slowly began mobilizing his
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16. Eleanor Roosevelt
and sharing her observations with the president. She communicated with the American people through her ... Kennedy reappointed Eleanor Roosevelt to the American delegation to the UN, and she became the chairperson ... her social and political influence to bring domestic and international crises to the attention of the ... American people by strongly advocating for racial and social justice. Early Years First Lady Eleanor
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17. Marianne Winter Pen Pals
promising to support the new arrivals. Remarkably, Marianne and her family were able to receive an ... affidavit through her American pen pal Jane Bomberger, whom she had never met. A Letter and a Lifeline ... .” Over the next three years, they learned about each other’s lives and families and occasionally ... long after the Anschluss, Nazi storm troopers stopped Marianne and her mother in the street and forced
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18. Dorothy Thompson
columnist, and radio personality. Throughout the 1930s and ‘40s, she urged her fellow Americans to pay ... attention to the threat that Nazi Germany posed to democracy and to Europe’s Jews. In 1939, Time magazine ... called Thompson and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt “undoubtedly the most influential women in America ... good story. In 1921, Thompson posed as a Red Cross nurse and infiltrated the castle of the former
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19. Kurt Maier
family was already on the waiting list for American immigration visas. Some, like Kurt and his family ... maze that included the French police, the American consulate in Marseille, foreign relief agencies, and ... succeeded in their quest and made it to the United States. Others ended up in Auschwitz. The Maier family in ... packed a few belongings. They were joined in the family living room by Charlotte’s mother and
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20. Otto Frank
Anne, and Edith Frank, Amsterdam, 1941. Courtesy of the Anne Frank Fonds, Basel, Switzerland. In April ... Frankfurt, Germany, with their two young daughters, Margot and Anne. After experiencing the first wave of ... antisemitic attacks instigated by the new Nazi government, Otto and Edith decided in 1933 to move to the ... products used for making jellies and jams, and his daughters started attending Dutch schools. As the years
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21. Frances Perkins
serving secretary of labor and one of the architects of Roosevelt’s New Deal economic policies designed to ... all racial and ethnic backgrounds, most of them immigrants. All her life, Perkins worked to make the ... labor in 1933, her duties included overseeing the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which ... officials responsibility for reviewing potential immigrants’ applications and issuing visas. As the
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22. Herta Griffel
her mother—she died after being deported to Nazi-occupied Poland—and was one of the only children in ... Austria (an event known as the Anschluss), subjecting Austrian Jews like Beila and Wolf Griffel and their ... Children’s Aid placed her with a foster family, the Baers. Clara and Joseph Baer had three biological ... Herta (right) with the Friedlander family (left to right): Harry, Beverly, and Mary, in Baltimore
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23. Raymond Geist
Berlin. The Nobel prize winner Albert Einstein had applied for an American visitor visa, and Geist was ... Congress/Harris and Ewing. If there was a single American diplomat in Nazi Germany viewed as a potential ... groups, refugee advocates, and the people he called “my devils”—the Gestapo, the Nazi ... I would have little influence on the gates of the concentration camps, which now and then I manage
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24. Franz Goldberger
a letter of credit, letters of recommendation, and a personal letter to the American consul in ... found their names and addresses in phone books and organizational directories. The Nazi regime had ... immigrate to the United States but he needed to find an American who would promise to take financial ... America, Goldberger learned other trades, including farming, domestic service, and hairdressing. At the
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25. Hiram Bingham IV
.” Bingham resigned from the Foreign Service in 1946 and went largely unrecognized until after his death ... American Vice Consul Hiram Bingham looks out over the port of Marseilles. United States Holocaust Memorial ... on his own initiative, and at his own expense, to investigate the situation of thousands of Jews ... the 37-year-old Bingham noted the appalling sanitary conditions, lack of food, and inadequate housing