THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by Wyman, David S - c. 1984

NY: The New Press. Good+. c. 1984. First Edition. Paperback; Second Printing. 1565844157 . Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Half-title page is creased. Brief notes inside the front cover. Kinda messy underlining and margin notes through p.29, with maybe a half-dozen additional pages with markings; else contents are clean, unworn. ; Second Printing of the First Edition, 1984. 8" Tall, XIX + 458pp. PAPER COVERS. Mostly red Cover , with black spine and white letters, is considerably lighter than posterboard. HISTORY. "The title of this book is a perfect reflection of its content. The Jews were abandoned. They could not count on anybody, not even on those of their people who were living free in America. Sad and revolting as it might sound, both the major Jewish organizations and the most powerful figures of the Jewish community could not or did not want to form a unified rescue commission. Was the free world aware of what was going on? Within the contest of war, the destiny of persecuted Jews carried too little weight to tip the scales in their favor. How else explain the semi-indifference of President Roosevelt faced with the agony of the European Jewry? How justify the anti-Semitic political tendencies of some of the higher officials in the Department of State? How understand the passivity and lack of perspicacity of most Jewish leaders in the United Staets? David Wyman, gifted thinker and historian, tries to answer these questions. And his answers hurt. It almost seems as if both diplomats and staetsmen spent more time inventing reasons not to save the Jews than trying to find a way to save them. Proud as we are of the generosity that America showed in fighting against Nazi Germany, we are embarrassed and dismayed by its behavior toward Hitler's Jewish victims. It is all very clear: this open, generous country closed its doors and its heart to the European Jews of the ghettos. Even in 1945, after the victory, it still did not want to have anything to do with them. " ...Bibliography. Index. .