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In January 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board. What was its purpose?

✓ To rescue victims of Nazi persecution, including Jews in Europe
B To bring U.S. soldiers home after the war
✕ To manage camps for prisoners of war Your answer
D To control immigration from Asia

Not quite.

The War Refugee Board was the first U.S. government agency set up to rescue civilians from Nazi persecution. It came late in the war, after years of restrictive U.S. refugee policy, but helped save many thousands of people.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: War Refugee Board

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