Timeline of Events
Wagner-Rogers Bill
February 9, 1939
Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Representative Edith Rogers of Massachusetts introduce a bill to permit the entry of 20,000 refugee children, ages 14 and under, from the Greater German Reich into the United States over the course of two years. The bill dies in committee in the summer of 1939.
Related Topics
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—1939: Key Dates
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—Wagner-Rogers Bill
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—Refugees
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—The United States and the Holocaust
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Holocaust Encyclopedia article—Refugees Today
