Headline

Helen Hayes Beseeches Congress to Admit 20,000 Child Refugees

Sub-Headline
Speaking as Mrs. MacArthur And As A Mother, Actress Recalls Her Own Happy Childhood; Senator Wagner and Labor Support Bill
Publication Date
Friday, April 21, 1939
Historical Event
Child Refugee Bill Fails in Senate
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U.S. Government Responses to the Nazi Threat
Refugees and Immigration
Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
New York Herald Tribune
Location
New York, New York
Page Section and Number
1
Author/Byline
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History Unfolded Contributor
Sandra A.
Location of Research
New York Public Library

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Bibliography

Breitman, Richard, and Alan Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.

Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

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