civilian relief

The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the concentration camps from March to April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during the Second World War.

Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.

Ruth Gruber, special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, tells about her experiences carrying out a mission to bring one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees from Italy in 1944, and discusses her efforts on their behalf once they arrived in America.

The story of the 1,000 World War II refugees that FDR suspended the quotos to rescue out of the thirteen million Holocaust victims.

Describes what happened to a Swedish diplomat who saved 30,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Biography of the young Swede who rescued over a hundred thousand Jews during World War II using special passports and working permits. He disappeared behind the Russian Army lines at the end of the war and his fate is still unknown.

The author relates the story of her grandparents' efforts after World War II to send packages of food, clothing, and shoes to their friends in Germany and others in Europe who suffered from the after-effects of the war.

After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.