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World War II and the Holocaust: America's Response to the Holocaust
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America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 by Call Number: On Course Reserve AMER 50ISBN: 0312133936Publication Date: 1999-01-15Were Americans the heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims in 1945, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders of unspeakable brutality and annihilation for a dozen years? Historians have long debated what the United States knew about Hitler's gruesome Final Solution, when they knew it, and whether they should have intervened sooner.
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Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America by ISBN: 029598161XPublication Date: 2001 -
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IBM and the Holocaust: the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation by ISBN: 9780914153108Publication Date: 2008 -
Beyond Auschwitz: post-Holocaust Jewish thought in America by ISBN: 0195148622Publication Date: 2001 -
A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by ISBN: 156584761XPublication Date: 2002 -
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Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the legacy of the Holocaust by ISBN: 9780896726987Publication Date: 2011A history of Holocaust understanding (and misunderstanding) in German- and Jewish-American communities. -
Buried by the Times: the Holocaust and America's most important newspaper by ISBN: 0521812879Publication Date: 2005An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-45.
Websites
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EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History: Shoah (Holocaust)Primary Sources.
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Holocaust Denial on TrialFrom Emory University: Using History to Confront Distortions.
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Holocaust Rescue and ReliefMade available as they are being digitized, the online records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee will contain more than 200,000 digital pages and photographs. Covering 1939–1967, these records document the Committee's work aiding hundreds of persons displaced by World War II. From the Andover-Harvard Theological Library-Harvard Divinity School.
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Selected Readings
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America and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1950-1965By: Lipstadt, Deborah E.. Source: Modern Judaism, 16 no 3 O 1996, p 195-214.
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America, FDR, and the Holocaustvanden Heuvel, William J., Society Sep/Oct97, Vol. 34 Issue 6, p54 (English Abstract Available)
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America, the Holocaust, and the abandonment of the Jews.By: Medoff, Rafael. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. Fall2003, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p350-369. 20p.
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America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory: Toward a radical politics of empathy.By: Landsberg, Alison. New German Critique. Spring/Summer97, Issue 71, p63. 25p.
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Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jewish question and the Nazi HolocaustBy: Smaliwood, James. East Texas Historical Journal. Fall2012, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p88-106. 19p.
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Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust.By: Fermaglich, Kirsten. Journal of World History. Mar2011, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p209-212. 4p.
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Journalism ethics after AuschwitzBy: Leff, Laurel. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. Fall2011, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p495-500. 6p.
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The Vogue of Jewish Self-Hatred in Post--World War II AmericaBy: Glenn, Susan A. Jewish Social Studies. Spring2006, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p95-136. 42p.
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 / by
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Why Didn't the Press Shout? International Journalism During the Holocaust by ISBN: 0881257753Publication Date: 2002 -
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