Rescue Board Book Review with Eric Saul, Founder of Visas for Life

This program is part of our 3rd Annual Author, Film, and Music Festival Series showcasing renowned speakers, authors, and musicians.
About this Event

Join Eric Saul for a presentation on Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe which tells the dramatic, little-known story of the War Refugee Board, created by Franklin D. Roosevelt and led by John Pehle. Learn how the War Refugee Board carried out daring rescue operations—providing food and medicine, forging documents, negotiating ransoms, supporting resistance efforts, and helping Jewish refugees escape. Drawing on years of research and newly uncovered archival materials, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding reveals America’s efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Eric Saul is a distinguished historian and curator specializing in American history and Holocaust studies. He served as Curator and Director of the Presidio Army Museum and has curated major Holocaust exhibitions at the Simon Wiesenthal Center – Museum of Tolerance. In 1993, he founded Visas for Life, an international project honoring Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and other diplomats who helped save lives during the Holocaust. Its exhibitions have been presented at more than 200 institutions worldwide.

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