• The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a U.S. executive agency to aid civilian victims of the Axis...
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    publication, the Roosevelt administration turned to the newly created War Refugee Board (WRB) in search of a solution to the genocide against Jews. US Treasury...
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  • State's alleged cover-up of the Holocaust. As the first director of the War Refugee Board, Pehle helped save the lives of tens of thousands of European Jews...
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    The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (or IRB; French: La Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada, CISR), established in 1989...
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  • was Executive Order 9417 creating the War Refugee Board composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury and War. Issued on January 22, 1944, the Executive...
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    Henry Morgenthau Jr. (category American people of World War II)
    Roosevelt finally acted and created the United States War Refugee Board (WRB) in January 1944. The board sponsored the Raoul Wallenberg mission to Budapest...
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    Jewish people by the Department of State, the War Refugee Board was created in 1944 to assist refugees from the Nazis. As one of the most powerful Allied...
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    "Safe Haven". The refugee shelter is now the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center. The shelter was established by the War Refugee Board. On June 12, 1944...
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  • Germans maintained, became known as the Vrba–Wetzler report. When the War Refugee Board published it with considerable delay in November 1944, the New York...
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    the main factor leading to President Roosevelt establishing the US War Refugee Board, which protected and rescued tens of thousands and possibly many more...
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