This disturbing book lays out in well-researched detail how the FDR administration, the State Department, Congress, other governmental entities, and the American people failed to come to the rescue of the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust/5. David S. Wyman is the chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Josiah DuBois Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, –(The New Press) and Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, –; the co-author, with Rafael Medoff, of A Race /5(76). · In this landmark study, David S. Wyman documents how FDR’s administration, especially the State Department, refused to undertake serious efforts to rescue European Jews from the Holocaust, and argues that a commitment to rescue by the United States could have saved several hundred thousand victims from the Nazis.5/5(1).
Aaron Berman, Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, (); David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, () and The Abandonment of the Jews: America and. Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in through the liberation of the death camps in For a short time, the US had an. Historian David Wyman has described American immigration policies during World War II as "paper walls that meant the difference between life and death." Despite the many obstacles to immigration, some , Jews did manage to reach the United States between and ; still, this number is a small fraction of those who attempted to come.
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, by David S. Wyman Call Number: DJ4 W This work remains the definitive book on America's response to the Holocaust. Among others, see David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, (New York: Pantheon, ); Seymour M. Finger, ed., American Jewry During the Holocaust (New York: American Jewish Commission on the. Aaron Berman, Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, (); David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, () and The Abandonment of the Jews: America and.
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