Title: How U.S immigration laws impacted the Holocaust. Research question: How did U.S laws impact the Holocaust? Length of essay: 5 pages Through out history there’s a ground breaking event that forces society to reform its beliefs. The Holocaust was one of these events, refugees were persecuted in a number of ways and society had a choice to help, become isolated, or to confirm any persecution as ok or right. In every choice our society has depicted that there's a right and a wrong decision to everything; it was wrong for U.S legislation to not give their best efforts to help refugees of the Holocaust it lead to future prejudices and the suffering of millions. The Holocaust impacted Americans in a number of ways. On one note the Holocaust instilled a number of fears into American’s minds. One being that Americans feared Nazis infiltration (American and the Holocaust: Exploring US Responses) The Nazis and their ability to invade was unprecedented during this time period and their main targets were Jews and non- Aryans thus, Americans feared that by raising immigration quotas and allowing an abundant amount of Jewish refugees into America it would set off Nazis and they would attack America at its heart. Along with fears of infiltration there were financial fears that Americans were facing which lead to the govt. being against reforming the quotas, due to the depression that Americans were dealing with. America’s original solution to settling these fears was the concept of isolationism, so they could focus on domestic issues (Holocaust memorial museum). One of the general issues that arose during the Holocaust was that the subject matter addressed during the Holocaust as far as U.S laws went was an unprecedented event that w... ... middle of paper ... ...t would be willing to risk it all to help innocent strangers. Works Cited "The Aftermath of the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 03 Feb. 2014. Gerber, David A. American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Print. "Investigation 1." Overview. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2014. "The United States and the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2014. "The United States and the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2014. "United States Policy and Its Impact on European Jews." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 06 Feb. 2014.
FDR and the Holocaust by Verne W. Newton provides a basis for scholarly discourse for the Hyde Park Conference of 1993. The book includes essays, articles, and chapters from different scholars specializing in the Holocaust and Roosevelt in which they examine FDR’s response to the Holocaust. The first chapter of the book is a summary of the participants’ remarks of the “Policies and Responses of the American Government towards the Holocaust,” which was prepared by rapporteur J. Garry Clifford. The objective of the conference was to determine through discussion whether or not the controversy over the Roosevelt administration’s response to the Holocaust was correct. Following this chapter, the first section of the book is filled with essays, articles, and chapters submitted by participants at the conference. The second section of the book includes papers by historians who were not participants at the conference, but whose contributions are relevant to the issues discussed. The articles written by the scholars throughout the book look at the policies between 1933 and 1942, addressing the critiques of FDR and his failure to stop the genocide of the Jewish community in Germany. The overall book not only looks at the rescue efforts during the war and the possibilities for future research and analysis, but also supplies a definitive resource for a pivotal time in United States history.
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America during the years of war had many ideas float around of what to do and how to fix the issue present. But, not much action was effectively taken. The American Jewish Leaders Meeting with President Roosevelt on December 8, 1942 discussed political ideas given to President Roosevelt and his hesitation on taking action. During this meeting, several American Jewish representatives met with Roosevelt and told him the idea of the War Refugee Board. The War Refugee Board’s goal was to aid civilian victims of the Nazis and restrict the Nazi’s actions. Yes this board did save thousands of Jews ,but, it took President Roosevelt almost three years to establish this board even though he knew about the killings occurring. If Roosevelt took action just a little bit early, thousands of more lives could have been spared. This fact truly represents America’s hesitation as a whole by showing that even the President, an extremely powerful person, was uncertain on taking action. Continuing with this point, there were many bills that were presented during the time of war but congress rejected them which ended up hurting many Jews. For example, the Wagner-Rogers bill was created to take in 20,000 endangered Jewish children. The senate did not support this bill which could have saved thousands of Jewish children. Overall, both Roosevelt and America in general were very hesitant in doing anything
Two newspaper articles bring attention to the actions being taken by Americans to aid Jewish victims and refugees of what would be known as the Holocaust. The articles titled, “Rabbis Plead for Europe’s Jews Today” and “Rescuing Refugees-- and in time! New Board Striving to Get Victims out Europe ‘In Mass’”, published by the Washington Post in 1943 and 1944 respectively. Considering the articles were only published five months apart from each other, they differ in the scope of the presentation and level of details. While the second article provides an informative analysis of the Holocaust by providing information about the countries, victims and the efforts to aid the victims, the second article only provides basic facts about the Holocaust and the names of a Jewish community leaders proposed effort to make an appeal to the United States government to aid in the rescue of Jewish refugees in Europe.
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