With the Holocaust happening all over Europe, Jewish refugees simply wanted to leave, and their best hope was to go to America. Sadly, the US government did not want the immigrants, and so it tried to stop them in any way. Franz Goldberger, a Jew living in Austria, had many roadblocks against immigration to the US put in place by the State Department, and even with Helen Roseland and the AFSCs help, Franz and many others perished. Dr. Franz Goldberger was a professor from Vienna, Austria until the Nazis took teaching away from him, leaving him with no job and no income (“Franz Goldberger”). He understood it was paramount to escape to the United States. No one he knew lived in America, and he needed to be acquainted with someone in order to…show more content… . . and as a Jew have no possibility whatsoever to earn my living in this country, in which I have lived since childhood” (“Franz Goldberger”). Many of the letters amounted to nothing, but one letter reached Hazel Hostetter. She lived in Des Moines and worked as a teacher, so she was unable to provide financial assistance, but she did give the letter to a friend, Helen Roseland (“Franz Goldberger”). As an assistant postmaster in Eagle Grove, Iowa, Roseland did not have the finances to help a lot, but she had the will. She was unmarried with 160 acres of land to her name and knew that she could find a way to help or even save Goldberger (“Franz Goldberger”). There was a hostel named Scattergood in West Branch, Iowa, where Roseland went for assistance (“Franz Goldberger”). This hostel is part of the AFSC, the American Friends Service Committee. It was a Quaker organization dedicated to assisting refugees to escape persecution by the Nazis (“The American Friends”). This was the largest organization of non-Jews attempting to help with this issue. The AFSC dates to 1917, when it started aiding humanitarian efforts in Europe during WWI (“The American
