The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945

In this landmark study, David S. Wyman documents how FDR's administration, especially the State Department, refused to undertake serious efforts to rescue European Jews from the Holocaust, and argues that a commitment to rescue by the United States could have saved several hundred thousand victims from the Nazis.

The definitive work on its subject, this book won the National Jewish Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Socie...