| Description |
xv, 444 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pt 1: Background. The setting : Europe and America. -- pt. 2: "A plan to exterminate all Jews." The news filters out ; The worst is confirmed. -- pt. 3: Fourteen lost months. First steps ; Struggle for action ; Bermuda ; Paper walls and paper plans ; The Emergnecy Committee ; The Zionists ; The Cabinet war ; The rescue resolution. -- pt. 4: The War Refugee Board. "When are the Americans coming? ; Hungary ; "Late and little" ; The bombing of Auschwitz. -- pt. 5: Conclusion. Responsibility |
| Summary |
In his landmark work, author David S. Wyman contends that a substantial commitment to rescue Jewish people on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousands of the Nazis' victims. This reissued edition contains a new Afterword by Wyman addressing the controversy his work has aroused |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [421]-432 |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
United States. War Refugee Board.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- United States.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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| Author |
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
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| LC no. |
84042711 |
| ISBN |
0394428137 |
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