- Headline
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Truman Opens Gates of U.S. for Refugees
- Sub-Headline
- Orders Admission of 39,000 a Year
- Publication Date
- Sunday, December 23, 1945
- Historical Event
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President Truman Orders Quota Preference for Displaced Persons
This database includes 628 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- Robert T. Brown (INS)
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Kimberly R.
- Location of Research
- Newsbank (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/)
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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. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945. New York: The New Press, 1998.
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