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1 America and the Holocaust

2 Franklin D. Roosevelt

3 Jews support FDR 1932 election, Roosevelt garnered 82% of the Jewish vote and 86% in 1936 "the Jews have three velten (worlds), die velt (this world), yene velt (the next world) and Roosevelt."

4 S.S. St Louis

5 Holland: 181 Belgium: 214 Britain: 228 France: 224

6 Venezuela 1939-251 Austrian Jews “Boats of Hope” “Königstein” (86) and "Caribia" (165) Both rejected by British colonies/Honduras Could only be farmers “Königstein”-Belgian-torpedoed/sunk-1942

7 Bermuda Conference British-American, April 1943 “Jews are just one of many victimized groups” Win the war first

8 Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

9 One of a series of aerial reconnaissance photographs of the Auschwitz concentration camp taken between April 4, 1944 and January 14, 1945, but not examined until the 1970s.reconnaissanceAuschwitz concentration camp

10 Picture of the Birkenau (Auschwitz II) extermination camp taken by an American surveillance plane on August 25, 1944. Crematoria II and III and the holes used to throw cyanide into the gas chambers are visible.Birkenau

11 Truman and Chaim Weizmann (1 st Pres of Israel), 1948

12 http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/press- center/2012-audit-of-anti-semitic- incidents.pdfhttp://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/press- center/2012-audit-of-anti-semitic- incidents.pdf http://izionist.org/eng/antisemitic-incidents- map-for-2013/http://izionist.org/eng/antisemitic-incidents- map-for-2013/


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