Shake heaven and earth: Peter Bergson and the struggle to rescue the Jews of Europe
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Shake heaven and earth: Peter Bergson and the struggle to rescue the Jews of Europe
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.53180973/0017
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]00316
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Jerusalem
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Gefen
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1999
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]277p.,index, bibliography
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]965229182X
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
A well-documented account of the little known effort of Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) who was instrumental in breaking through the walls of silence that surrounded the Holocaust. He was crucially important in the drive that finally forced Roosevelt to establish an American government rescue agency, the War Refugee Board