EXCITING NEW BOOK ABOUT WWII DIPLOMAT RESCUER HARRY BINGHAM:
“COURAGEOUS DISSENT:
How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives”
BY ROBERT KIM BINGHAM, SR.,
Son of Diplomat Rescuer Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV
"Courageous Dissent by Robert Kim Bingham is a moving account of his father’s career in the US State Department and how he went counter to official policy by issuing visas to Jews and others fleeing Nazi Europe, including the artist Marc Chagall and the brother of the author Thomas Mann.” Dean Michael Shinagel, Harvard University Alumni Bulletin, Fall 2010.
The author says about his father:
My father needs to be remembered as Hiram Bingham number FOUR because he grew up in the shadow of three previous Hiram Binghams who themselves led extraordinary lives.
His great-grandfather and grandfather, Hirams I & II, were missionaries in the Kingdom of Hawaii, beginning in 1820, who are portrayed by James Michener’s book titled Hawaii.
Harry Bingham's father, Hiram Bingham III, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
Harry Bingham not only helped save European artists and intellectuals who were on Hitler’s most wanted list, like author Lion Feuchtwanger, painter Marc Chagall, and Nobel scientist Otto Meyeroff, but he also issued as many visas as he could to ordinary refugees desperately seeking to escape the Nazis through Southern (Vichi) France.
According to the Wyman Institute, as other outposts in France refused to issue visas, refugees “made their way to Marseilles, seeking to reach Harry Bingham for one last chance to live.” [Medoff article, 5/6/04]
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Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives
EXCITING NEW BOOK ABOUT WWII DIPLOMAT RESCUER HARRY BINGHAM:
“COURAGEOUS DISSENT:
How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives”
BY ROBERT KIM BINGHAM, SR.,
Son of Diplomat Rescuer Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV
"Courageous Dissent by Robert Kim Bingham is a moving account of his father’s career in the US State Department and how he went counter to official policy by issuing visas to Jews and others fleeing Nazi Europe, including the artist Marc Chagall and the brother of the author Thomas Mann.” Dean Michael Shinagel, Harvard University Alumni Bulletin, Fall 2010.
The author says about his father:
My father needs to be remembered as Hiram Bingham number FOUR because he grew up in the shadow of three previous Hiram Binghams who themselves led extraordinary lives.
His great-grandfather and grandfather, Hirams I & II, were missionaries in the Kingdom of Hawaii, beginning in 1820, who are portrayed by James Michener’s book titled Hawaii.
Harry Bingham's father, Hiram Bingham III, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
Harry Bingham not only helped save European artists and intellectuals who were on Hitler’s most wanted list, like author Lion Feuchtwanger, painter Marc Chagall, and Nobel scientist Otto Meyeroff, but he also issued as many visas as he could to ordinary refugees desperately seeking to escape the Nazis through Southern (Vichi) France.
According to the Wyman Institute, as other outposts in France refused to issue visas, refugees “made their way to Marseilles, seeking to reach Harry Bingham for one last chance to live.” [Medoff article, 5/6/04]
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EXCITING NEW BOOK ABOUT WWII DIPLOMAT RESCUER HARRY BINGHAM:
“COURAGEOUS DISSENT:
How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives”
BY ROBERT KIM BINGHAM, SR.,
Son of Diplomat Rescuer Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV
"Courageous Dissent by Robert Kim Bingham is a moving account of his father’s career in the US State Department and how he went counter to official policy by issuing visas to Jews and others fleeing Nazi Europe, including the artist Marc Chagall and the brother of the author Thomas Mann.” Dean Michael Shinagel, Harvard University Alumni Bulletin, Fall 2010.
The author says about his father:
My father needs to be remembered as Hiram Bingham number FOUR because he grew up in the shadow of three previous Hiram Binghams who themselves led extraordinary lives.
His great-grandfather and grandfather, Hirams I & II, were missionaries in the Kingdom of Hawaii, beginning in 1820, who are portrayed by James Michener’s book titled Hawaii.
Harry Bingham's father, Hiram Bingham III, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
Harry Bingham not only helped save European artists and intellectuals who were on Hitler’s most wanted list, like author Lion Feuchtwanger, painter Marc Chagall, and Nobel scientist Otto Meyeroff, but he also issued as many visas as he could to ordinary refugees desperately seeking to escape the Nazis through Southern (Vichi) France.
According to the Wyman Institute, as other outposts in France refused to issue visas, refugees “made their way to Marseilles, seeking to reach Harry Bingham for one last chance to live.” [Medoff article, 5/6/04]
Copyright:
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Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives
By Robert Kim Bingham, Sr.
COURAGEOUS DISSENT is the The book also
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