Tragedy at Évian: How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust

In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital
conference at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities. However, most of those nations rejected the pleas then being made by the Jewish communities, thus condemning them to the Holocaust.

There is no doubt that the Évian conference was a critical turning point in world history. T...