Where were the United States government and the American Jewish community during the destruction of European Jewry?
• var addthis_pub=”mjl08″;var addthis_options = ‘favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; Questions of guilt, both personal and national, abound in contemporary memory and scholarship about the Holocaust. When did the Allies know about the Nazi’s Final Solution? When did the world Jewish community know? What could have been done, if anything, to change the outcome? The following article addresses the knowledge and responses of the United States government and the American Jewish community to Nazi anti-semitism and genocide in the 1930s and 1940s. In the last 20 years, Auschwitz, the most infamous of the death camps operating during World War II, has become a symbol of the Holocaust. The name Auschwitz has come to represent not only the horrors of the Nazi genocidal regime, but also the failure of the U.S. government to take appropriate action to prevent the murder of millions of people. What did America know about the situation of European Jewry durin
