Scholars Dispute ‘New’ Evidence on FDR and Holocaust
Please see all:Leading Holocaust scholars have refuted a new book’s claim that there is new evidence President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to help Jewish refugees from Nazism in the 1930s.The book, Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald 1933-1945, authored by Richard Breitman, Severin Hochberg, and Barbara McDonald Stewart, was published this week by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Indiana University Press. The book claims to reveal FDR’s interest in settling large numbers of Jewish refugees in Africa or Latin America in the 1930s.“The claims in the book are not new, and they are not evidence that FDR was seriously interested in rescuing Jewish refugees,” said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. “It is well known that President Roosevelt dabbled in all kinds of pie-in-the sky resettlement schemes, but refrained from taking practical steps to implement them.”The Wyman Institute has issued a r