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Rescue and Flight American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis / Susan Elisabeth Subak ; afterword by William F. Schulz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Subak.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unitarian Service Committee--History.
- Unitarian Service Committee.
- World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Unitarians.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War relief--United States--History--20th century.
- War relief.
- War relief--Europe--History--20th century.
- Unitarians--Europe--History--20th century.
- Unitarians.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Europe.
- Humanitarian aid workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 310 p. ) ill. ;
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.
- Contents:
- Prague, 1939
- Marseille and Lisbon, 1940
- Lisbon and Marseille, 1940
- Marseille, 1941
- Marseille, 1942
- Geneva, Lisbon, and Marseille, 1943
- New York, Lisbon, Paris, and Prague, 1944-45
- Afterword / by William F. Schulz.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p [275]-280) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780803230170
- 0803230176
- OCLC:
- 664274755
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