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War Refugee Board

War Refugee Board

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | | Copyright

War Refugee Board, established in January 1944 by the US secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (see also Morgenthau Plan), to assist the immediate rescue and relief of European Jews, and of any other victims of Nazi persecution. It worked with other US agencies, and with international ones, to this end and $1 million was set aside for initial administrative expenses. Its members were Morgenthau, the secretary of state, Cordell Hull, and the secretary of war, Henry Stimson, but they left the initiation and the execution of policy to the Board's director, John Pehle (later William O'Dwyer). The removal of Jewish refugees from France, including 5–6,000 children, was arranged, as was the transportation of Jewish children from Bulgaria to Palestine via Turkey, and safe havens were established for others in the USA and Libya. See also Final Solution and refugees.
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War Refugee Board

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War Refugee Board an interdepartmental committee established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 22, 1944, at the urging of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morganthau, Jr. It was formed after two years of reports of Nazi mass murders of Jews and other minorities in Europe. The Board made diplomatic efforts on behalf of refugees in Nazi-occupied countries and helped to rescue and repatriate up to 200,000 Jews during World War II. Jewish organizations criticized the efforts of the War Refugee Board as insufficient.
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