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President Franklin Roosevelt was admired as a humanitarian--yet he shut America's doors to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. He called himself the champion of "the forgotten man," but when it came to the Jews under Hitler's jackboot, FDR turned away.
Dr. Rafael Medoff's new book reveals starting new evidence about FDR's most shameful hour--his willingness to turn a blind eye to the systematic annihilation of six million European Jews.
Medoff's groundbreaking research has uncovered documents revealing FDR's private opinions about Jews--shocking new evidence that pulls back the curtain on why he refused to admit refugees or bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz.
This gripping historical account of the real story of President Roosevelt's record on the Holocaust is a stunning expose of how FDR could have saved many innocent lives, yet chose not to.
Comments by scholars and Jewish leaders on FDR and The Holocaust: A Breach of Faith:
“The controversy over FDR's bystanding during the Holocaust continues--as it should. Despite some efforts to justify Roosevelt's behavior, the moral failure demands a full reckoning. In this book, Rafael Medoff gives us important treatments of various actors in the processes which led to Roosevelt's actions and inactions. The volume is enriched by new documents and new reflections. This book should be read and taken seriously by everyone who is concerned with why President Roosevelt came up so short in dealing with the most total crime of genocide in history.”
--Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
President, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation
Past Chair, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
“FDR has been lionized--and for good reason. From the New Deal to victory in World War II, he proved himself one of history's great world leaders. But did he do all he could to save the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust? In his excellent new book FDR and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff reveals new and compelling research that sheds important light on this question. In the tradition of David S. Wyman's monumental The Abandonment of the Jews, Dr. Medoff confronts some hard realities that are sure to make people rethink their assumptions about FDR's response to the Nazi genocide.”
-- Professor Ari L. Goldman, Columbia University; former New York Times
religion correspondent and author of The Search for God at Harvard.
“This book provides new and devastating revelations about the extent and depth of antisemitism among Franklin D. Roosevelt, several of those closest to him, and the State Department, and how it shaped U.S. refugee policy during the Holocaust. Dr. Medoff expands on David S. Wyman's pathbreaking work, exposing the roots of the Roosevelt administration's weak response to the lethal threat to European Jewry, from 1933 through the Holocaust. FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith is particularly relevant today at a time of widespread denial of, and indifference to, intensifying global antisemitism.”
--Prof. Stephen H. Norwood and Prof. Eunice G. Pollack
Editors, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History
“For those who think of FDR as a friend and hero of American Jews, Dr. Rafael Medoff’s well written and documented expose of Roosevelt’s failure to attempt to rescue European Jewry from the Holocaust, is a reminder that Jews in America must never be afraid to speak truth to power.”
--Seymour Reich, chairman emeritus of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations and the International
Catholic-Jewish Commission (on the Vatican and the Holocaust)
"Rafael Medoff’s superbly important, well-researched, and fascinating new book reveals the painful truth of what really happened when Jewish leaders met with President Roosevelt--what he knew, when he knew it, and why his reaction to the Holocaust was so pitifully inadequate.”
--Dr. Israel W. Charny
Editor, The Encyclopedia of Genocide
- Sales Rank: #666471 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-21
- Released on: 2013-02-21
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
FDR Controversy
By M. Cowan
FDR's share of the responsibility of the West, and the US in particular, for the failure to help rescue the Jewish victims of Naziism, has long been controversial. There is no doubt that FDR refused to help Jewish refugees enter the US or, for that matter, any of the territories. Even when the Philippines, then a US territory, offered to take thousands of refugees, it was blocked from doing so by the US Government.
The problem with trying to evaluate and assign blame is that FDR had valid excuses for refusing to appear to be helping save Jews. He argued that if it seemed that he was steering the US into the war and risking the lives of American boys just to save Jews, he would not be able to get Congress to approve rearmament in 1940, or to help England in its battle with Germany before December 7, 1941. Another recent book, Breitman and Lichtman, "FDR and the Jews", (one of the authors is the official historian at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC), makes this argument very forcibly, and should be read together with the Medoff book. In retrospect, it is hard to believe the extent of anti-semitism in the US during those years. Congress was even worse, and Jewish leaders were afraid to ask Congress to liberalize the immigration laws to help the refugees because of the likelihood that Congress would make the laws more restrictive, not less restrictive. Much of the blame is also placed on the State Department (on this point, another recent book, Larson, "In the Garden of the Beasts", is devastating).
Both FDR and even Eleanor when she was very young, uttered and wrote some pretty vicious anti-semitic comments (so did HST). But Eleanor became a champion for all minorities, and when he became president, HST overcame his own biases to do what was right for both Jews and Blacks. FDR did nothing for either minority.
So why did FDR fail to act to help the refugees? Was it strictly because of the political exigencies of the time, or was it because of his own private but clear anti-semitism? Were the political problems the real reason, or just a cover for his inaction? That is the question that is difficult to answer.
In the end, there are too many open questions about FDR's reticence, which the Medoff book covers. Most of the available immigration quotas were deliberately left unfilled and the FDR rationale for not helping Jews does not explain why these quotas were kept unavailable. Nor can one just blame the State Department--those officials were all FDR appointees and he has to be assigned responsibility for their policies. More, the Medoff book shows that in too many cases FDR signed off or approved those State Department actions in writing.
The one fault with the Medoff book is that it sometimes overstates or simplifies issues. An example is the offer of the Dominican Republic to accept 100,000 refugees. Medoff asserts that the US arbitrarily blocked that country from helping. The Breitman/Lichtman book offers a much fuller explanation of what happened and why the US was fully justified in refusing to cooperate with the Dominican Republic. The island's dictator, Truijilo, was persona non grata, having just murdered about 18,000 people on the island (a forerunner of one Idi Amin).He wanted trade concessions from the US and financial payments for accepting the refugees, while the land being offered for settlement of the refugees was close to uninhabitable). Hard to blame the US for refusing to go along with that.
On balance, the Breitman/Lichtman book is very well written and offers an insight into the US community that many of us have conveniently forgotten, but the Medoff book is more convincing on the ultimate question of FDR's responsibility for the complete inaction of the US.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Good but too repetitious
By Robert Kaufman
He makes a lot of excellent points,like FDR's
anti-semitism and his animus against asians.
He also makes it very clear that his sunny
public persona was a complete fake which
came as a big shock to me.I also found it interesting that his
Jewish supporters, especially Rabbi Wise, hung
onto him even though he was constantly disappointing
them, because they felt that his social programs were
more important than any help he might have given the Jews.
Basically, they felt that they were Socialists first and for most.
So he makes a lot of good points, but the book could have been
much much shorter.
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
A MUST READ
By CTLady
Very revealing. Not the Roosevelt my parents generation thought that they were voting for! Very well written and documented. Compelling
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