FDR and the Holocaust
Title | FDR and the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael Medoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | 9780615763248 |
The Jews Should Keep Quiet
Title | The Jews Should Keep Quiet PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael Medoff |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2019-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0827618301 |
Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed proposals to use empty Liberty ships returning from Europe to carry refugees, and rejected pleas to drop bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz, even while American planes were bombing targets only a few miles away--actions that would not have conflicted with the larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR? Medoff explores the sensitive question of the president's private sentiments toward Jews. Unmasking strong parallels between Roosevelt's statements regarding Jews and Asians, he connects the administration's policies of excluding Jewish refugees and interning Japanese Americans. The Jews Should Keep Quiet further reveals how FDR's personal relationship with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American Jewry's foremost leader in the 1930s and 1940s, swayed the U.S. response to the Holocaust. Documenting how Roosevelt and others pressured Wise to stifle American Jewish criticism of FDR's policies, Medoff chronicles how and why the American Jewish community largely fell in line with Wise. Ultimately Medoff weighs the administration's realistic options for rescue action, which, if taken, would have saved many lives.
Saving the Jews
Title | Saving the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Robert N. Rosen |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560257783 |
An analysis of what many considered to be FDR's failure to rescue imperiled Jewish Europeans during World War II challenges beliefs that depict the president as anti-Semitic, drawing on extensive research to profile Roosevelt as a friend and staunch protector of Jewish people throughout the world.
Prelude to Catastrophe
Title | Prelude to Catastrophe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Shogan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1566638313 |
Looks at the relationship Franklin D. Roosevelt had with a variety of influential Jews and examines their actions and inactions regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Euorpe during World War II.
1944
Title | 1944 PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Winik |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501125362 |
"Chronicles the events of 1944 to reveal how nearly the Allies lost World War II, citing the pivotal contributions of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin,"--Novelist.
The Conquerors
Title | The Conquerors PDF eBook |
Author | Michael R. Beschloss |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2003-10-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780743244541 |
As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again.
America's Soul in Balance
Title | America's Soul in Balance PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Wallance |
Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608322947 |
After America entered World War II, a genuine opportunity arose to save at least 70,000 Romanian Jews who had been deported to the killing fields of Transnistria. This title presents the true story of the senior officials of the US State Department at the height of World War II, whom some accused of being accomplices of Hitler.