The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 - Softcover

Wyman, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565844157 ISBN 13: 9781565844155

Publisher: New Pr, 1998

Synopsis

In his landmark The Abandonment of the Jews, David S. Wyman argues that a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis' victims. The definitive work on its subject, The Abandonment of the Jews is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Review:

It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee

From the Author:

This book is to inform the readers of the Jewish dilemma. My book was written to inform the public of the atrocities of the U.S. Government during WWII. The government at the time knew what was going on and did nothing to stop the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews. -- David S. Wyman

About this edition

• Publisher: New Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1565844157
• ISBN 13: 9781565844155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458