Wise was a leading figure in more than a dozen Jewish organizations, and was probably the most influential and well-respected American Jew of his generation.
During the Holocaust, the U.S. State Department official in charge of matters concerning European refugees was Breckinridge Long, an extreme nativist with a particular suspicion of Eastern Europeans.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his staff at the Treasury played a key role in President Roosevelt's decision to set up an agency charged with rescuing Europe's Jews.Â
In 1944, Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman and a member of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, volunteered to go to Budapest to help save Hungarian Jews.
Will Rogers, Jr. was one of the most active agitators on Capitol Hill in favor of U.S. efforts to rescue the Jews in Europe. And what he achieved really made a difference
The following maps describe a few instances of Allied inaction and show just a small selection of the atrocities being committed in one area of Eastern Europe.
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert.
