New evidence presented in Refugees and Rescue challenges widely
held opinions about Franklin D. Roosevelt's views on the rescue of
European Jews before and during the Holocaust. The struggles of
presidential confidant James G. McDonald, who resigned as League of
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1935, and his allies to
transfer many of the otherwise doomed are disclosed here for the
first time. Although McDonald's efforts as chairman of FDR's
advisory committee on refugees from May 1938 until nearly the end
of the war were hampered by the pervasive antisemitic attitudes of
those years, fears about security, and changing presidential
wartime priorities, tens of thousands did find haven. McDonald's
1935 1936 diary entries and the other primary sources presented
here offer new insights into these conflicts and into Roosevelt's
inconsistent attitudes toward the "Jewish question" in Europe.
Following the lauded Advocate for the Doomed (IUP, 2007), this
is the second of a projected three-volume work that will
significantly revise views of the Holocaust, its antecedents, and
its aftermath."
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