Click Here to Read: Holocaust Museum’s Exhibit Makes Excuses for Ignoring Genocide: One shudders at the thought of museums one day conjuring up excuses for more recent presidents who likewise turned a blind eye to genocide or other atrocities around the world.
BY Rafael Medoff on the Jerusalem website on May 12, 2018.
Click Here to Read: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
Click Here to Read: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Betrayal: FDR and the Jews by Jerold S. Auerbach on the Algemeiner website on September 23, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Long-Lost Plea to FDR Revives Question: How Could Europe’s Jews Have Been Saved?: A ‘60 Minutes’ segment, an archivist, and the enduring legacy of assumptions that there was no way to skirt the law By Rafael Medoff in The Tablet Magazine on May 22, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Why Didn’t FDR Help European Jews? Hints in His Decision To Intern Japanese Americans Now, 70 years after the Supreme Court upheld the internment of civilians in WWII, it may revisit the ruling By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on February 14, 2014.