Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The help of the United States


Write about your feelings toward your country and its role in the Holocaust.  As you respond, consider what you see as the U.S.’s role in current world conflicts.   
The role of the United States in the Holocaust: “During the Anschluss, thousands of Austrian Jews lined up outside foreign embassies, hoping for visas to enter other countries,but the paperwork moved as slowly as ever. The Dominican Republic offered to take 500; no one else offered to take any more than their usual immigration quotas. Hitler knew now that no one wanted his Jews. After: Kristallnacht, Roosevelt allowed the 15,000 Germans and Austrians with visitor status to remain in the United States, but he did nothing more” (Could the Holocaust Have Been Avoided). I think that the United States did  their best to try help as many Jews as they could.They couldn’t save all of them.  In the end the United States, tried to do their best to help all of the Jews  to survive the Holocaust.

1 comment:

  1. I do not think I can agree with you. I believe that History has shown us that the US was a very Anti-Semitic country in the 1930's. It was not like Germany, of course, but Jews rarely were in Government or Big Business because of Anti-Semitism. The US could have opened its doors to many more Jews than it did.

    Bob Spielman

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