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Refugees and rescue : the diaries and papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945 by James G. Mcdonald; Richard Breitman; Barbara McDonald Stewart; Severin Hochberg is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Refugees and rescue : the diaries and papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945 about?

New evidence presented in Refugees and Rescue challenges widely held opinions about Franklin D. Roosevelt's views on the rescue of European Jews before and during the Holocaust. The struggles of presidential confidant James G. McDonald, who resigned as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1935, and his allies to transfer many of the otherwise doomed are disclosed here for the first time. Although McDonald's efforts as chairman of FDR's advisory committee on refugees from May 1938 until nearly the end of the war were hampered by the pervasive antisemitic attitudes of those years, fears about security, and changing presidential wartime priorities, tens of thousands did find haven. McDonald's 19351936 diary entries and the other primary sources presented here offer new insights into these conflicts and into Roosevelt's inconsistent attitudes toward the "Jewish question" in Europe. Following the lauded Advocate for the Doomed (IUP, 2007), this is the second of a projected three-volume work that will significantly revise views of the Holocaust, its antecedents, and its aftermath.

Author

James G. Mcdonald; Richard Breitman; Barbara McDonald Stewart; Severin Hochberg

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press ; Washington, D.C.: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253353078

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir