Published : 2025-12-31

“A Somewhat Passive Attitude of Governments”: A Few Remarks on American Policy Toward the Holocaust of Jews in 1941–1944

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The article opens with a quote from a letter by Louis Segal, Secretary General of the Jewish National Workers’ Alliance, to Stephen T. Early, Press Secretary to the President of the United States, requesting American support regarding Nazi Germany’s extermination of Jews in the occupied territories of the USSR. Segal attached to the letter, dated November 3, 1941, an editorial from “Congress Weekly,” the official publication of the American Jewish Congress, which cited specific examples of mass crimes committed against Jews by Nazi Germany and Romania. Segal’s letter serves as a starting point for describing, explaining the causes of, and evaluating US policy toward the extermination of Jews conducted by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe, particularly the USSR and Poland. The article also describes the activities of American Jews in defense of their co-religionists persecuted in Europe.

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Holocaust, United States and the Holocaust, antisemitism, World War II, American Jewish response, Holocaust in Poland



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Różański, P. (2025). “A Somewhat Passive Attitude of Governments”: A Few Remarks on American Policy Toward the Holocaust of Jews in 1941–1944. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 15, 153–176. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.2876

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