Ivo John Lederer

They expected to be sent back to Europe at the end of the war, however in 1945 President Harry Truman signed special legislation allowing the refugees to remain in the United States, becoming citizens.

Dr. Lederer wrote or edited a variety of books and articles, including Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963) which won the 1964 George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association.

[5] On June 4, 1994, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Allies' liberation of Rome, Dr. Lederer wrote an article for the New York Times recalling his memories of that day as a Jewish refugee hiding in that city.

[6] On December 17, 1995, following conclusion of the Dayton Accords on former Yugoslavia, he wrote an article for The Washington Post entitled Bosnia: Precedents of Peace in which he stressed his view that stability in southeastern Europe was very much "in the American national interest.

Dr. Lederer was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the American Historical Association, and a Senior Fellow of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University.

"[1] James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Energy and Director of Central Intelligence, quoted in the New York Times obit., called Lederer a "master at policy dialogue, knowing how best to identify and orchestrate a multiplicity of views to advance understanding" .