Kurt Klein emigrated to the U.S. in 1937 and exchanged hundreds of letters with his parents who were deported to Auschwitz. Read excerpts from these letters.
One of the first public figures to make effective use of the airwaves, Charles E. Coughlin, was for a time one of the most influential personalities on American radio.
Despite being bicycle mechanics, Wrights had a sense of some of the scientific challenges that had to be first solved before moving to designing and building an airplane.
On November 9, 1938, the sounds of breaking glass filled the air throughout Germany and parts of Austria while fires devoured synagogues and Jewish institutions.Â
In 1944, more than 17 months after news of Hitler's plan to annihilate Europe's Jews reached the U.S., President Roosevelt issued an executive order that established the War Refugee Board.
In Poland, the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. In a desperate last stand, the remaining Jewish inhabitants began a hopeless month-long battle against them.
Wise was a leading figure in more than a dozen Jewish organizations, and was probably the most influential and well-respected American Jew of his generation.
