Posts Tagged: FDR Holocaust
Modern-Day Immigrants, and How Eleanor Roosevelt Saved Jewish Refugees from the Holocaust
JNS.org - In 1940, a passenger cargo ship called the SS Quanza left the port of Lisbon carrying several hundred Jewish refugees to freedom. But...
Pope Francis: Why Didn’t US Bomb Auschwitz and Why Don’t We Take More Action Today?
JNS.org - “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to… Auschwitz,” Pope Francis remarked this week. “Tell me,” he asked, “why...
Hong Kong Dispute Echoes Holocaust Controversy
JNS.org - The Obama Administration's reluctance to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong revives a familiar clash between human rights and diplomatic relations—a conflict...
D-Day and the Bombing of Auschwitz
JNS.org - Seventy years ago this week, the Allies staged the D-Day invasion, landing some 24,000 troops on the beaches along France's Normandy Coast...
Visiting Auschwitz, Israeli Officials Cite U.S. Failure to Bomb Death Camp
JNS.org - The Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's rejection of pleas to bomb Auschwitz was on the minds of several Israeli leaders during the recent...
The American Cartoonists Who Spoke Out Against Kristallnacht
JNS.org - "I could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in a 20th-century civilization," President Franklin Roosevelt declared in the wake of...
Nixon, Truman, and FDR’s Private Thoughts About Jews
JNS.org - The latest tapes of President Richard M. Nixon's private conversations reveal a number of anti-Semitic remarks made by the president. This is...
The Man Who Told FDR About the Holocaust
JNS.0rg - Seventy years ago this month, on July 28, an eyewitness to the Nazi atrocities against Europe's Jews brought the horrifying news directly to...
FDR Used the IRS Against Jewish Activists
The news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unfairly targeted conservative groups has brought renewed spotlight on a 2010 lawsuit filed by the pro-Israel group...
How the St. Louis Saved Jewish Lives – in Holland
This week's symposium on "Performing Arts in Holland During the Holocaust" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem explored the fascinating subject of how Dutch Jews under...
The U.S. Holocaust Museum at 20: Confronting Tough Issues
When President Bill Clinton stepped to the podium at the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., 20 years ago, most...
St. Louis Survivors Dispute New Book’s Absolving of FDR and U.S. Coast Guard
Survivors of the Holocaust-era SS St. Louis refugee ship are disputing a new book's claim about their ship's fateful voyage. In a new book titled FDR...
A Holocaust Pageant That Was ‘Too Political’ for FDR
Seventy years ago this week, 40,000 New Yorkers watched as Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities joined hands to bring news of the Holocaust to the...
Ed Koch, FDR, and the Holocaust
"Mayor Koch last night took on the ghost of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," an item in the New York Daily News in 1988 began, which probably...