Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe

Until January 1944, the United States had no policy regarding the Holocaust. On January 16, 1944, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and several members of his staff pleaded with President Roosevelt, convincing him to create the War Refugee Board (WRB) and establish a policy of relief and rescue. The WRB staff, almost all young Treasury Department lawyers, opened a refugee camp in upstate New York, started a psychological warfare campaign, sent false papers into enemy territory, negotiated ransom offers with Nazis, and ultimately saved tens of thousands of lives.