Relief and rescue of Jews from Nazi oppression, 1943-1945
By: John Mendelsohn, editor ; Donald S. Detwiler, advisory editor ; introduction by John Mendelsohn.
Contributors: Mendelsohn, John, 1928-; Detwiler, Donald S.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781616190149
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources; World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Sources; Rescue work -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; War relief -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1982, as v. 14 in series The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Telegram from the secretary of state to the American legation in Bern and memorandum on the rescue of Jews from Rumania, May 16-25, 1943; title: Telegram by Leland Harrison, chargé d'affaires ad interim at the American legation in Bern, to the secretary of state responding to an interview with Gerhart Riegner on the rescue of Jews from Rumania, June 14, 1943; title: Minutes and notes of meetings of representatives of relief organizations at the office of the War Refugee Board in Istanbul, July 10-Oct. 9, 1944; title: Interpretation reports of aerial photographs of the synthetic rubber and oil plants at Auschwitz, with attachments, Apr. 18-Aug. 30, 1944; title: Letter from John W. Pehie, executive director of the War Refugee Board, to John J. McCloy, assistant secretary of war, urging the bombing of extermination camps as a relief matter, with attachments, Nov. 8, 1944; title: Correspondence file including communications by John W. Pehie, John J. McCloy, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the secretary of the treasury, debating bombing the Kaschau rail center leading from Hungary to Auschwitz, Jan. 28-Oct. 5, 1944; title: Correspondence between the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on using poison gas against the Germans in retaliation for the extermination of the Jews by means of poison gas, Sept. 16-Oct. 5, 1944; title: Treasury Dept. licenses for relief and rescue issued pursuant to recommendations of the War Refugee Board up to Feb. 5, 1945; title: Reports by the Office of Strategic Services on trading the lives of Hungarian industrialists of the Weiss-Chorin families for their foreign assets, Dec. 11, 1944 and Jan. 6, 1945; title: Interrogation transcripts of SS Standartenführer Kurt Becher on strategies undertaken within the SS for the release or protection of Jews, Mar. 27 and 28, 1946.