2025-07-27 21:55 <br/> Tags: #organization #AmericanJewry #AmericanJewry #Lobby # Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe - The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe was an [[Irgun and Lehi Zionist Paramilitary Organizations|Irgun]] front organization operating in the United States from 1943-1945. - The committee was founded in 1943 by [[Hillel Kook]] for the purpose of raising the alarm about the Holocaust within both the US government and public. - The committee sponsored the 1943 "We Will Never Die" ceremony and rally at Madison Sq Garden. - Famous Jewish director [[Ben Hecht]] wrote the production for the event which was organized by the [[Bergson Group]]. - The group pressured and shamed FDR into forming the War Refugee Board in 1944. The WRB was formed to rescue Jews from Europe in WWII. #### References - Medoff, Rafael, and David S. Wyman. _A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust._ New York: The New Press, 2002. - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson) and the Bergson Group.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/peter-bergson - **“Hillel Kook.”** _Wikipedia_. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook).