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[10.00] Rediscovering Herbert Hoover: The Hidden Humanitarian

• Richard Hurowitz unveils a lesser-known side of Herbert Hoover, far from the caricature of a Depression-era failure.
• Before politics, Hoover was a self-made mining engineer who built a global empire and helped repatriate Americans during WWI.
• His greatest contribution? Feeding war-torn Europe and preventing mass starvation—up to 80 million lives saved.
• As President, Hoover was an early and outspoken supporter of the Balfour Declaration and Jewish causes.
• Despite his post-presidency reputation, Hoover worked tirelessly behind the scenes to oppose rising anti-Semitism in Europe.
• He quickly condemned Hitler’s persecution of Jews, while FDR hesitated or outright declined to do the same.
• Hoover’s principled stance on humanity, not politics, sets the stage for one of the most quietly noble American lives in modern history.

[19.30] Holocaust, Hesitation, and the Power of One Voice

• As Hitler rose to power, Hoover was among the rare public figures who condemned Nazi anti-Semitism early and loudly.
• FDR, by contrast, declined to co-sign statements against Hitler’s treatment of Jews—even before the war began.
• Hoover’s protests led to tangible action: diplomatic pushback, radio speeches, and even personal meetings with Hitler.
• He used his prestige to challenge fascism, calling it incompatible with American values and human dignity.
• Hoover’s stance laid moral groundwork for Jewish rescue efforts even as official U.S. policy closed its doors.
• While the world remained largely indifferent, Hoover stood nearly alone among world leaders with both a conscience and a platform.
• His voice may not have changed government policy—but it changed hearts, and sparked movements.

[27.00] Resistance in Action: From Pageants to Policy

• Hurowitz details Hoover’s alliance with the Bergson Group, a bold Jewish activist movement sounding alarms in American media.
• Hoover lent his name and credibility to daring public efforts, including the landmark “We Will Never Die” pageant.
• This traveling production brought Holocaust awareness to mainstream America—with stars like Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Roosevelt in the audience.
• Hoover also backed full-page ads in the New York Times condemning U.S. inaction—controversial moves that put him at odds with FDR.
• He proposed bold relocation efforts: resettling Jews in Africa or neutral territories to escape Nazi death camps.
• Hoover used his engineering mindset to develop real-world rescue logistics—something FDR’s administration refused to prioritize.
• He was decades ahead in framing humanitarianism as a moral obligation, not a political liability.

[36.45] Sousa Mendes: Portugal’s Quiet Hero of Conscience

• Hurowitz shares the stunning story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who defied orders to save thousands of Jews.
• Ordered not to grant visas, Sousa Mendes broke protocol after a conversation with a rabbi shook him to his core.
• “I would rather stand with God against man,” he declared, then began issuing life-saving visas en masse.
• Among those he saved were artists, aristocrats, and everyday Jewish families—ultimately up to 30,000 people.
• He sacrificed everything—his job, wealth, and health—becoming destitute and dying in obscurity.
• Portugal later took credit for the lives he saved, while Sousa Mendes languished unrecognized.
• Today, he is honored at Yad Vashem and celebrated as one of the greatest individual rescuers of the Holocaust.

[46.10] Memory, Legacy, and the Lessons We Must Carry

• Richard Hurowitz’s book, In the Garden of the Righteous, shines light on the rare few who risked everything to save others during the Holocaust.
• The title refers to the 27,000+ honored as “Righteous Among the Nations,” a sliver of Europe’s 500 million.
• Powerful contrast: an ordinary German girl told a Holocaust survivor, “We lost the war, but we won against the Jews.”
• Hurowitz urges us to elevate “philo-Semitism” and collective resistance as vital modern values.
• Denmark and Albania—two nations that resisted hate and protected their Jews—offer blueprints for moral courage.
• Hoover’s postwar initiatives proved that peace can be engineered—if led with clarity, compassion, and vision.
• Hurowitz’s hope: that more people live with the moral clarity of the rescuers he chronicles—people who made choices, not excuses.

Nicole Iny is the Executive Director of Grants and Consumer Education at FAIR Health, a national, independent nonprofit organization that qualifies as a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. FAIR Health possesses the nation’s largest collection of private healthcare claims data, which includes over 47 billion claim records. It is dedicated to bringing transparency and integrity to healthcare costs and health insurance information through data products, consumer resources and health systems research support.

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Richard Hurowitz is a writer, investor, and the publisher of The Octavian Report, the magazine of ideas, now on Substack. He is the chief executive officer of Octavian and Company LLC, an investment firm.

Richard’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, USA Today, CNBC, the Weekly Standard, History Today and the Jerusalem Post. His book on Holocaust rescuers, In the Garden of the Righteous, was published by HarperCollins in January 2023, was nominated for the Wingate Prize and received positive reviews from such diverse outlets as the Wall Street Journal, PEOPLE, the New York Review of Books and the Christian Science Monitor.