America and the Holocaust
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America and the Holocaust

A Documentary History

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

America and the Holocaust

A Documentary History

About this book

Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The first comprehensive volume to teach about America’s response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.

Each chapter pivots on five key documents: two in image form and three in text form. Individual introductions that contextualize the documents are followed by explanatory text, analysis of historical implications, and suggestions for further reading. A concluding state-of-the-field essay documents how scholars have arrived at the presented information. A complementary teacher’s guide with questions for discussion is available online.

The twenty chapters address a broad range of subjects and events, among them America’s response to Hitler’s rise, U.S. public opinion about Jews, immigration policy, the Wagner-Rogers bill to save children, American rescuers, news coverage of atrocities, American Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust, the campaign for U.S. rescue action, the question of bombing Auschwitz, and liberation.

Viewing real documents as a means to understanding core issues will deepen reader involvement with this material. High school and college students as well as general readers of all levels of knowledge will be engaged in understanding this crucial chapter in American history and weighing questions regarding mass atrocities in our own era.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Responses to Hitler’s Rise
  8. 2. The American Mood
  9. 3. Doing Business with Hitler
  10. 4. The Universities and the Nazis
  11. 5. U.S. Immigration Policy
  12. 6. Searching for a Haven
  13. 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis
  14. 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children
  15. 9. American Rescuers
  16. 10. Genocide Confirmed
  17. 11. All the News the Media Could Fit
  18. 12. American Christian Responses
  19. 13. American Jewish Responses
  20. 14. The Bermuda Conference
  21. 15. Obstacles to Rescue
  22. 16. The Campaign for Rescue
  23. 17. Zionism and the Holocaust
  24. 18. The War Refugee Board
  25. 19. Bombing Auschwitz
  26. 20. Liberation
  27. State of the Field
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. About Rafael Medoff