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America and the Holocaust

A Documentary History
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
352 Seiten
Englisch
Jewish Publication Societyerschienen am01.05.2022
The first comprehensive volume to teach about America´s response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.mehr
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KlappentextThe first comprehensive volume to teach about America´s response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8276-1518-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum01.05.2022
Seiten352 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 214 mm, Höhe 276 mm, Dicke 21 mm
Gewicht992 g
Artikel-Nr.58332423
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Responses to Hitler´s Rise America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler             Document 1.1 Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much! Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany             Document 1.2 Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew; In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan The New York Times Interviews Hitler             Document 1.3 Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans Boycotting German Goods             Document 1.4 No Trading with Germany Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden             Document 1.5 Hitler on Trial-Resolution and Verdict Further Reading 2. The American Mood Antisemitism in Congress             Document 2.1 Congressman John Rankin´s Remarks before the House Racial Science Spreads             Document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race Father Coughlin and Hate Radio             Document 2.3 Father Coughlin´s Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public             Document 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes Antisemitism in the State Department             Document 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials Further Reading 3. Doing Business with Hitler U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics             Document 3.1 To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States Apologizing to Hitler             Document 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes to Hitler A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally             Document 3.3 Heil Hitler´ Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany Censoring Criticism of Hitler             Document 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interior´s Criticism of Hitler FDR Urges Quarantining of Aggressor Nations             Document 3.5 FDR´s Quarantine Speech Further Reading 4. The Universities and the Nazis Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia             Document 4.1 Luther Calls Hitler Critics Old-Timers´ Nazi Official Visits Harvard             Document 4.2 Render unto Caesar A Nazi University Celebrates             Document 4.3 Heidelberg American Students in Nazi Germany             Document 4.4 Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There Abandoning Refugee Scholars             Document 4.5 Hamilton College President´s Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars Further Reading 5. U.S. Immigration Policy Immigration Statistics             Document 5.1 Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America             Document 5.2 Anne Frank´s Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate Postpone and Postpone and Postpone               Document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration The Close Relatives Rule             Document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving Close Relatives Behind Albert Einstein´s Plea to the First Lady             Document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions Further Reading 6. Searching for a Haven James McDonald Resigns in Protest             Document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany Eyewitness to Horror             Document 6.2 Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds The Evian Conference             Document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference Suicide of a Jewish Refugee             Document 6.4 Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany FDR Responds to Kristallnacht             Document 6.5 President Roosevelt´s Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom Further Reading 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands             Document 7.1 Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews A Child Appeals to the First Lady             Document 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House             Document 7.3 St. Louis Captain´s Log Record of Passengers´ Telegram to the White House Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis             Document 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis The Saddest Ship Afloat               Document 7.5 Refugee Ship Further Reading 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children The Wagner-Rogers Bill             Document 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168) 20,000 Ugly Adults               Document 8.2 Remark by FDR´s Cousin against Wagner-Rogers President Roosevelt´s Position             Document 8.3 FDR´s File No Action Note on Wagner-Rogers Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children             Document 8.4 First Lady of the American Theater Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children             Document 8.5 Mother Witness Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children Further Reading 9. American Rescuers The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry             Document 9.1 You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria             Document 9.2 Erika Tamar´s Passport to America The Sharps´ Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia             Document 9.3 Martha Sharp´s Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France             Document 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish GIs from the Nazis             Document 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds´s Bravery Further Reading 10. Genocide Confirmed The Bund Report             Document 10.1 Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews-May 1942 The Riegner Telegram             Document 10.2 Gerhart Riegner´s Telegram Revealing the Nazis´ Annihilation Plan The Sternbuch Telegram             Document 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder The Allies´ Declaration             Document 10.4 German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt             Document 10.5 A Polish Underground Courier´s 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt Further Reading 11. All the News the Media Could Fit The New York Times on Babi Yar             Document 11.1 Two Reporters´ Contrasting Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre and Why The Media and the Allies´ Declaration             Document 11.2 U.S. News Media´s Coverage of the Allies´ Declaration on the Mass Murder The Media and the Deportations from Hungary             Document 11.3 Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation The Nation Urges Rescue             Document 11.4 While the Jews Die I. F. Stone Investigates             Document 11.5 Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat Further Reading 12. American Christian Responses Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy             Document 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933 The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht             Document 12.2 Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany? Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust             Document 12.3 Horror Stories from Poland, From Rabbi Wise, From the Editors Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out             Document 12.4 On Implementing Brotherhood A Baptist Farmer´s Gesture             Document 12.5 Farmer Rogers, His Brother´s Keeper Further Reading 13. American Jewish Responses The President and the Rabbi             Document 13.1 Rabbi Wise´s Student Questions His Relationship with FDR Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President             Document 13.2 Report on the Visit to the President Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President             Document 13.3 Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel If They Were Slaughtering Horses               Document 13.4 Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy             Document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy Further Reading 14. The Bermuda Conference A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda             Document 14.1 The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted Announcement at the End of the Conference             Document 14.2 Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem Congressman Emanuel Celler´s Response             Document 14.3 Response to Bermuda A Jewish Leader´s Response             Document 14.4 The Mockery at Bermuda An Appeal to the Conscience of the World               Document 14.5 I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words Further Reading 15. Obstacles to Rescue Congressional Sympathy             Document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9) A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department             Document 15.2 Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for Consideration FDR on Rescue through Victory               Document 15.3 Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr. The Allies´ Declaration in Moscow             Document 15.4 Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security Empty Ships for Refugees             Document 15.5 Shipping for Refugees Further Reading 16. The Campaign for Rescue The Bergson Group´s Race against Death               Document 16.1 This Is a Race against Death The Rabbis´ Petition to FDR             Document 16.2 In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe Congressional Resolution on Rescue             Document 16.3 Text of the Gillette-Rogers Resolution (H. Res. 352) Breckinridge Long´s Testimony             Document 16.4 Statement of Hon. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State Exposing the State Department             Document 16.5 Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews Further Reading 17. Zionism and the Holocaust The White Paper             Document 17.1 Palestine Statement of Policy Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty (White Paper) A Christian Zionist Speaks Out             Document 17.2 The Fifth Freedom Proposed Anglo-American Statement             Document 17.3 Statement for Issuance by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom Regarding Palestine 1944 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms             Document 17.4 Republican Party Platform of 1944 and Democratic Party Platform of 1944 FDR´s 1944 Statement on Zionism             Document 17.5 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt´s October 1944 Statement Regarding Palestine Further Reading 18. The War Refugee Board Creation of the War Refugee Board             Document 18.1 Executive Order No. 9417 Establishing a War Refugee Board A Presidential Warning             Document 18.2 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt´s March 24, 1944, Statement Regarding Nazi Collaborators A Surprising Poll             Document 18.3 Gallup Poll Findings Concerning Temporary Admission of Refugees Rescuing Romanian Jews             Document 18.4 Life Line to a Promised Land Raoul Wallenberg´s Mission             Document 18.5 With Wallenberg in Budapest Further Reading 19. Bombing Auschwitz The Auschwitz Escapees´ Report             Document 19.1 The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Birkenau in     Upper Silesia A Plea to Bomb the Railways             Document 19.2 Diary of Jacob Rosenheim A Plea to Bomb the Gas Chambers             Document 19.3 World Jewish Congress Official Urges Assistant Secretary of War to Bomb Gas Chambers at Auschwitz and Nearby Railways The War Department´s Rejection Letter             Document 19.4 Assistant Secretary of War Rejects Proposal to Bomb Railways to Auschwitz A Public Appeal for Bombing             Document 19.5 Last Chance for Rescue Further Reading 20. Liberation A GI Encounters the Holocaust             Document 20.1 Liberation of Dachau Eisenhower Urges Media to See the Camps             Document 20.2 Call for Prominent Witnesses to Conditions of Indescribable Horror Marlon Brando, Holocaust Witness             Document 20.3 A Flag Is Born Play An American Chaplain in Buchenwald             Document 20.4 An American Chaplain Encounters Survivors in Buchenwald The Harrison Report             Document 20.5 Report of Earl G. Harrison State of the Field Notes Bibliography Indexmehr

Autor

Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the coeditor of the institute's online Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust. He has written more than twenty books about American Jewish history, the Holocaust, and related topics, including The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (JPS, 2019).

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