Past Projects

As conditions continued to deteriorate in Europe, and pleas became more desperate, the Alaska relocation plan reached Congress. Critics charged that proposal was a 'smokescreen' attempting to slip thousands of aliens into the country through America's ''back door.'' (Last of four parts)

As millions of Jews fell under German authority in the Reich's sweep through Eastern Europe, the Nazis began to systematically collect Jews and move them into urban ghettos. The Alaska settlement plan appeared as a peephole of light. Alaskans were torn, with many reacting strongly against the plan. (Third of four parts)

With war looming, a plan by the federal government emerged calling for bringing to Alaska ''new settlers of various races, creeds and stations,'' including Jewish refugees from Europe. President Roosevelt was intrigued. (Second of four parts)

On the eve of World War II, Alaska became an improbable beacon of freedom for Jews still trapped inside the Third Reich. How a plan emerged to relocate some of them to the Last Frontier. (First of four parts)