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OCR: President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board in January 1944, months after the U.S State Department had confirmed rumors of the German government campaign ta commit genocide against the Jews of Europe The War Refugee Board was created in res ponse to reports that the State Department had been haiting efforts rescue thousa nas of Jews in Romania and France, despite approval of these pians by other arms of the government. The U.S government supplied the War Refugee Board with sufficient resources to pian and impiement rescue operations. The Board was charged with fulfilling the U.S government' new policy, which was to rescue the victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death The War Refugee Board P!P help to save thousands of Jews particularly ir Hungary an ...