About Time: The History of the War Refugee Board

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dc.contributor.advisorDeshmukh, Marion
dc.contributor.authorErbelding, Rebecca
dc.creatorErbelding, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-29T18:40:40Z
dc.date.available2015-07-29T18:40:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board (WRB) in January 1944 to formulate and effectuate plans for the relief and rescue of Jews and other persecuted minorities from the threat of Nazi atrocities (what we now know as the Holocaust). This dissertation is a chronological narrative history of the WRB and, by relying on primary source documentation, presents the agency's work within the context of World War II and of the information and possibilities known to the WRB staff, most of whom were Treasury Department lawyers with little experience with relief work. As the War Refugee Board was the official response of the United States to Nazi genocide, this work is meant to provide a reference work on the agency itself and to complicate overly simplistic assumptions on the topic of American response to the Holocaust.
dc.format.extent806 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/9646
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2015 Rebecca Erbelding
dc.subjectAmerican history
dc.subjectEuropean history
dc.subjectModern history
dc.subjectHolocaust
dc.subjectRescue and relief
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjectWar Refugee Board
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.titleAbout Time: The History of the War Refugee Board
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral

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