Episode 3: The Alum Who Saved 200,000 Lives
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Davis, Rick
Mertes, Micah
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2022-10-13
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He was one of the most consequential individuals ever to graduate from Creighton University, though few know his name. In a not-weird (though inspiring and heartrending) episode of Weird Creighton History, Rick and Micah explore the life of John Pehle, a man whose actions helped save the lives of 200,000 European Jews during WWII.
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He was one of the most consequential individuals ever to graduate from Creighton University, though few know his name. In a not-weird (though inspiring and heartrending) episode of Weird Creighton History, Rick and Micah explore the life of John Pehle, a man whose actions helped save the lives of 200,000 European Jews during WWII.
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Read the full story (https://web.archive.org/web/20221025145253/https://alumni.creighton.edu/news-events/news/john-pehle-creighton-us-holocaust)
Watch The U.S. and the Holocaust (https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/)
Read the full report Pehle cowrote for FDR (https://web.archive.org/web/20230327095917/http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html)
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Creighton University