Millions of Jews to Rescue: A Bergson Group Leader's Account of the Campaign to Save Jews from the Holocaust - Softcover

Merlin, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615439101 ISBN 13: 9780615439105

Publisher: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2011

Synopsis

The Roosevelt administration tried to deport them. The FBI spied on them. The British wanted to arrest them. But none of that could stop the Bergson Group from forging ahead with its campaign for rescue of Jews from the Holocaust in 1943-1944. Their rallies, lobbying in Washington, and hundreds of newspaper advertisements shook the American public and forced the Allies to face the Nazi genocide. In these pages, the late Samuel Merlin, one of the group's leaders, tells the remarkable story of a handful of activists --Jews and Christians-- who helped change history. Merlin's account is edited and annotated by noted Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff.

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About the Author

Samuel Merlin (1910-1996) was one of the leaders of the Bergson Group, which during the 1940s organized public campaigns for the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust and creation of a Jewish state. Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Hoocaust Studies, in Washington, D.C., and has authored twelve books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and Jewish history.

Edition details

• Publisher: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615439101
• ISBN 13: 9780615439105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Medoff Professor Rafael