American Rescue Activities in Sweden
This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to extract twenty thousand Jewish children from Nazi hands through negotiations. For financial and political reasons Sweden sought allied assistance for this project. Despite the good efforts of American Minister to Stockholm Herschel Johnson,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1993
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1993, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-215 |
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| Summary: | This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to extract twenty thousand Jewish children from Nazi hands through negotiations. For financial and political reasons Sweden sought allied assistance for this project. Despite the good efforts of American Minister to Stockholm Herschel Johnson, however, the State Department dragged its feet during 1943. But the creation of the War Refugee Board revived possibilities, and in the last stage of the war nearly 21,000 internees from German concentration camps were shipped to southern Sweden. Repeated Swedish offers to take in the Jewish children likely prepared the way for this rescue, which became feasible only when Himmler was willing to defy Hitler's Instructions. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/7.2.202 |