During the Holocaust, the U.S. State Department official in charge of matters concerning European refugees was Breckinridge Long, an extreme nativist with a particular suspicion of Eastern Europeans.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his staff at the Treasury played a key role in President Roosevelt's decision to set up an agency charged with rescuing Europe's Jews.Â
In 1944, Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman and a member of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, volunteered to go to Budapest to help save Hungarian Jews.
Will Rogers, Jr. was one of the most active agitators on Capitol Hill in favor of U.S. efforts to rescue the Jews in Europe. And what he achieved really made a difference
