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...Whosoever saves a single Jew," teaches the Babylonian Talmud, "Scripture ascribes it to him as though he had saved an entire world." How then should one regard those who, out of indifference, cowardice or neglect, did not help Jews whose lives were in peril? The Holocaust raises that question with particular force. As Vice President Al Gore said at a commemorative ceremony in Washington last week, people who watched and did nothing share blame with the Nazis for the death of 6 million Jews...
According to America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust...
...letter from a Congresswoman urging him to support a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish children to enter the country outside the immigration quotas, he was referring to the bill rather than simply indicating the letter should not be answered. However, America and the Holocaust is well grounded in showing the extent to which anti-Semitism was a part of the American way a half-century ago. Immigration laws had the effect of preventing Jews from coming to America, and Jews were routinely barred from certain professions as well as from vacation resorts that advertised themselves as favoring...
...list [of Holocaust victims] from Washington," said Kahan. "I believe it's a compilation from archives the Nazis kept of people they killed...
Ninety people attended a Yom Hashoah memorial service Wednesday night and listened to readings of poetry and diary entries from the Holocaust, Kahan said...