"You have been kind enough to assist me" : Herman Stern and the Jewish refugee crisis / by Terry Shoptaugh.
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TextPublication details: Fargo, ND : Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, 2008.Description: x, 366 p. : ill., 24 cmISBN: - 0911042695
- 9780911042696
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971
- Stern, Herman, 1887-1980
- Holocaust survivors -- United States
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion, American
- Jewish refugees -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
- North Dakota -- Biography
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
. This story is about how one man living in a small town in North Dakota, by dint of his energy, determination, refusal to be discouraged, help at critical moments (for he well knew that he could never have succeeded as he did without the help of a special friend in Washington), he managed to pluck more than a hundred German Jews away from the clutches of the Nazis.
This is the story of a North Dakota clothier who rescued more than 100 German Jews from the impending Holocaust in Europe. Herman Stern, himself a Jewish immigrant to the United States, began by sponsoring the immigration of relatives, and expanded his efforts during the thirties until he had developed a plan to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees in North Dakota, and had begun raising money for that purpose. While the onset of the war in 1939 stalled the larger effort, Stern continued to sponsor refugees and was ultimately responsible for more than 140 people coming to America and safety. Stern relied on the help of U.S. Senator Gerald Nye.