| Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust Contributor(s): Rosen, Robert N. (Author), Weinberg, Gerhard (Foreword by), Dershowitz, Alan M. (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1560259957 ISBN-13: 9781560259954 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Was FDR friend or foe, or simply indifferent, to Jews in World War II? Since the 1960s, when a post-World War II generation of historians came of age, the answer has seemed increasingly that FDR was close to being an anti-Semite. After all, the Holocaust took place on FDR's watch. Why didn't the Allies simply bomb the camps? And then there's the recurring question of the SS St. Louis, the boat packed with refugees that was infamously refused entry to the United States and sent back to Europe. The case is clear. Or is it? Now, in a rigorously researched narrative and interpretive history, the record of the Roosevelt Administration is indisputably laid bare. And it is a record to be proud of. The New Dealers dealt with Nazi persecution courageously and energetically. Itself a fearless, outstanding example of historical detective work. Saving the Jews lays to rest once and for all the canard that Roosevelt abandoned the Jews of Europe and that America was a passive, callous bystander to the Holocaust. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (1.75 lbs) 688 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Saving the Jews is a rigorously researched narrative and interpretive history of how FDR and his administration dealt with the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, 1933-1945. It disputes the generally accepted view that Roosevelt abandoned the Jews of Europe and that America was a passive, callous bystander to the Holocaust, and reveals the true story. The author has conducted new research that explains how the Roosevelt administration and American Jewry saved the passengers on the S.S. St. Louis; how American Jews (and the Jews of Palestine) opposed the bombing of Auschwitz and never asked Roosevelt to bomb the camps; how America and other western democracies saved over seventy percent of German Jewry from Hitler; how Rauol Wallenberg was sent to save Jews by the American government. The research done on this book has found no credible evidence that FDR was an anti-Semite but found that Roosevelt was personally close to many Jews. FDR secretly developed the strategy for the Wagners-Rogers Bill (allowing 20,000 German Jewish children to enter the U.S. in 1938, 1939). Yet most historians continue to accuse him of failing to support the bill. |