New book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees [View All]

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Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt ignored the plight of Jews under the Nazis.

The book claims that he instead tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

The New York-based Center for Jewish History is holding a news conference Friday to publicize the book titled "Refugees and Rescue."

The book will be released later this month. It is being published by Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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