Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941

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University of Massachusetts Press, 1968 - Germany - 306 pages

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The World Scene
27
The Intergovernmental Committee
43
Charity Begins at Home
67
Copyright

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David Sword Wyman was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on March 6, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Boston University in 1951, a master's degree in education from Plymouth State College in New Hampshire in 1961, and a doctorate in history at Harvard University in 1966. He taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. He wrote several books including Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941 and The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. In 2013, scholars and others inspired by his book founded the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D. C. Wyman died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 89.

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