Borden Reams of the State Department considered it unrealistic to encourage large scale rescue because only 30,000 places were available under the Palestine White Paper quota and he “did not know any other areas to which the remaining Jews could be evacuated” Source: Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews.
By the beginning of the year more than five million Jews ― and almost as many non-Jews ― had been murdered by the Nazis. As Allied forces prepared to invade France tha June, word leaked out that the Germans were about to begin shipping to Auschwitz some 750,000 Hungarian Jews, the last largely intact Jewish […]
“The views of the Chiefs of Staff were sought frequently by the Cabinet Committee appointed in July 1943, to consider a long term solution for the Palestine problem. General Wavell, not normally a member of the War Cabinet, was invited to give his views, based upon his long experience of Palestine and of the Middle […]
‘Mr. Speaker, nations have declared war on Germany, and their high-ranking officials have issued pious protestations against the Nazi massacre of Jewish victims, but not one of these countries thus far has said they would be willing to accept these refugees either permanently or as visitors, or any of the minority peoples trying to escape […]
This whole question of financing the evacuation of the Jews from Rumania and France was first called to the attention of the Treasury Department on June 25, 1943. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
“LIFE VISITS IBN SAUD: FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES SAUDI ARABIA IS A CLOSED COUNTRY TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD. In World War II, as in World War I, which preceded his possession of the Holy Cities, Ibn Saud has preserved a benevolent neutrality. This was fortunate for the British. Before the war, had Ibn Saud fallen […]
King of Saudi Arabia, IBN Saud’s First Pronouncement on the Palestine Problem Interview of His Majesty the King with LIFE Magazines’ Representative, Mr. Busch. in Rihad, March 21, 1943 What is your Majesty’s opinion concerning the Palestine problem? “I have withheld my opinion concerning the Palestine problem from the Arabs in order to avoid placing […]
U.S.A. State Department cabled for a clarification of these proposed financial arrangements (e.g. to the Reigner license). This matter was not called to the attention of the Treasury Department at this time. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
Nazi forces detonated the Great Synagogue of Warsaw, thus ending the 27-day Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In attempt to prevent the mass deportation to death camps of those remaining in the ghetto, a group of Jews decided to fight back, forming militia groups and arming themselves with smuggled pistols, rifles and Molotov cocktails. On the eve […]
Robert C. Alexander of the State Department’s Visa Division described rescue proposals as moves that would ‘take the burden off Hitler.’ Similarly R. Borden Reams of the Division of Europen Affairs, referring to efforts in the spring of 1943 to persuade the Allies to negotiate with Germany for the release of the Jews, spoke of […]