Dear Miss Perkins by Rebecca Brenner Graham (2025, Kensington Publishing Corp.) tells the story of Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor during World War II. The first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, she helped to save the lives of countless Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. She was responsible for legally allowing Jewish refugee children to enter the United States, and she fought xenophobia and antisemitism. The author, Dr. Graham, studied thousands of letters housed in the National Archives. See a review in Times of Israel
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