Acknowledgments
Introduction: “If Only He Would Do Something for My People!”
1. “Nothing but Indifference”
2. In Search of Havens
3. Silence and Its Consequences
4. Suppressing the Dissidents
5. The Politics of Rescue
6. FDR, Wise, and Palestine
7. The Failure to Bomb Auschwitz
8. Antisemitism in the White House
Conclusion: A President’s Strategy and a Rabbi’s Anguish
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Based on recently discovered documents, Rafael Medoff reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies concerning European Jewry during the Holocaust.
Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and coeditor of the institute’s online Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust. He has taught history at Ohio State University and the State University of New York at Purchase, and written more than twenty books about American Jewish history, the Holocaust, and related topics.