David Warburg is an up-and-comer at the U.S. Treasury when he is appointed to head up the War Refugees Board. The Board's pilot project is to rescue 1,000 Jewish refugees to upstate New York. Warburg is not a religious Jew, but he has been wanting to get into the fight since the beginning. James Carroll's Warburg in Rome tells his story. Carroll uses real history to give Warburg's tale a sense of the real post-war tragedy of the ratlines and the struggle of Jews and displaced persons to find a new home...

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